Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company, one of Nigeria’s indigenous vehicle manufacturing companies, has delivered the first batch of cars ordered by the Government of Sierra Leone.
The vehicles arrived in Freetown earlier this week and were built to serve Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Defence.
Cornel Osigwe, Innoson Group’s head of Corporate Communications in a statement, noted that the vehicle was built on request by the president of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio.
Osigwe also said that the president placed an order worth $4.7 million(N2.01bn) for the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces officers, RSLAF.
With the arrival of the Innoson vehicles in Free Town, Sierra Leone has become the first country in West Africa whose armed forces are using IVM products outside Nigeria.
Commendations were showered on the president for not only choosing to equip the military but also buying from Africa.
