The Nigerian Senate has announced plans to investigate Volkswagen Automobile Group, accusing the company of not assembling vehicles in Nigeria as it claimed.
This was made known by The Chairman, Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff, Hope Uzodinma while briefing journalists in Abuja on Monday.
According to NAN, while on an oversight visit to their plant in Lagos, they discovered a large number of vehicles in the company’s warehouses supposedly assembled and shipped into Nigeria.
Here is what Uzondinma had to say;
“What we discovered at the Volkswagen of Nigeria is an issue of national concern. We discovered that the type and number of vehicles we saw stored in that facility is very alarming and it does not help government’s intention for creating an auto policy that will create local empowerment.
“In spite of those restrictions, I am surprised that this company is able to manoeuvre to bring in foreign assembled plants.
“We will take it to every extent that it requires to ensure that every form of economic sabotage in this economy must be stopped and those behind those sabotage brought to book,’’
Critics of the National Assembly are often accused of embarking on these sort of investigations only to huff and puff and come up with nothing tangible.
maybe honourable members of the national assembly are up to their job now.the main point is that everything is dry,especially human spirit in nigeria.i visited one of my best friend in Maiduguri around 1997 to 1999.i was shocked to see.thing are side -worded and lopped-side.this was during the the regime of Gen abacha,in the mist of plenty ,there was cronic and acute poverty.
I tried to watch tv.the only good programme, was watching the WWE ( the America wrestling match ) at the hotel.i was so depressed,so I decided to go for a walk,as I wanted to discover Maiduguri.some of the building I saw was bungalow,with no wall to protect the protect the building from animal,those building are spaced loosely.
I wanted to visit the palace of the emir,as I wanted to see .how the people are living and I wanted to see if there are many branches of banks or communities bank,not much,compared to lagos or Enugu..i decide to leave as this dryness,may affect my sanity.i wanted to visit Maiduguri again,in 10 yrs.now this boko haram have made this visit impossiblei was living where the igbos were doing business in building and car parts traders.
Every thing is connected,there is a quiz programme in Britain,i think called the weakest link,participant are about 6 or 7 with a moderator,those victims are asked question by turn in rounds,and at the ends of the rounds,examination comes across.those victim( sorry I means participant ), and they judges themselves individual,and the moderator asked them “who is the weakest link who will evicted out ” and they all answers,the moderator looked at the stats,who answered the most correct question and who failed to answered the correct question and.which victim that will go.
is the honourable members of the national assembly the weakest link in Nigeria ?they collect money and do nothing or padding national budget.there was a nass initiative from two members from south east,who wanted to forced companies with balance sheet more than 10 billion naira to be floated on the nse.God bless nigeria