Proforce Limited will provide armoured vehicles with Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria 27111.

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The plant, as the visitors also learnt, has built and delivered armoured marine security boats for the Lagos state government for use by the rejuvenated State Waterways Authority.

Disclosing that the facility had at different times played host to guests from the presidency as well as Olusegun Aganga, the minister of industry, trade and investment; the minister of state in the ministry; state governors and top military officers, Ogundeyin stated that all the visitors “were impressed by the level of our technology and quality of our products,” even as he added that the vehicles from the plant are as good as the best in the world.

He told the police boss that good news about his company’s products had spread to France as it has been approached to build armoured vehicles for export to a neighboring francophone country.

“Nigerians are great people and what we do here is enough evidence that if encouraged, Nigerians can achieve great things to earn the country a lot of respect in the international community. There may be a few bad eggs, but generally, Nigerians are hard-working people, and investments like this need to be encouraged,” he remarked.

He said that the National Automotive Council (NAC) has been lending a lot of support to the plant, adding that through the Council’s efforts, locally based auto plants like Proforce, would be paying zero duty on completely knocked down parts and lauded the Federal Government for introducing the auto development policy and following up with the new fiscal policy measures for the auto industry as issued by Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the coordinating minister for the economy and minister of finance on November 14.

He assured that production activities at the plant are based on the global industry standards, using only internationally certified ballistic materials of: CEN level B6/ NIJ Level 111, CEN level B7/ NIJ IV, Stagnag III. According to him, all raw materials for armouring vehicles, such as the body (ballistic steel that protects the sides, roof and under-bodies), and windows (ballistic glass) are supplied and fully certified for quality by the world’s leading suppliers of armoured vehicle components.