Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma

Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma CON (born 1 October 1961) is a Nigerian business magnate and industrialist, founder and CEO of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM), Nigeria's first indigenous automobile manufacturing company.

Quotes

• I want Nigeria to move from consumption to production. That is my dream.

• Once Nigeria's policies support local manufacturing effectively, more people will establish industries. But when investors see manufacturers struggling to survive, it discourages further investment.

• I'm not saying that you allow only me to be doing that, I want more people to join. Motor manufacturing is an industry of industries; it has so many components. If you have many factories that are doing motors here, I believe even the engine factory will be here. Even so, many items factories will be here; Nigeria will move.

• We get all of them together. For example, we produce plastic components of the vehicles like bumper, dashboard, front grille, etc, at our Innoson Technical and Industrial Company Ltd, in Enene, Enugu. We are in a position to buy any item that anybody can produce locally. We don't need to import any of the items we can get in Nigeria. But we are still importing engine and gearboxes.

• [The Nigeria-First policy is] one of the best things that has happened to this country.