Jonathan To Unveil Tricycle Factory, Products In Abuja

Former President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to unveil a tricycle manufacturing factory and its products in Abuja on 21st October to ease the transportation of goods and people across the country.

The factory, Zeetin Technologies, is located in the Idu Industrial Area of Abuja and assembles tricycles designed to transport goods.

The company’s management said Jonathan had been chosen as chairman of the occasion and would unveil the products.

In a statement signed by its chairman, Barr. Robert Azibaola, the management said the name Zeetin meant “for you”, reflecting its promise that everything the company produced would contribute to its customers’ success.

Zeetin Technologies assembles the VZ150 and VZ200 tricycles at Idu Industrial Area, Abuja, in technical partnership with VIAR Motor Indonesia, a manufacturer with more than 30 years of experience in three-wheeler engineering.
“We are producing tricycles here in Nigeria to make it easier and cheaper for Nigerian small businesses to move goods and people.

“The tricycle is the working vehicle of the market trader, the farmer bringing produce to town, the artisan, the distributor’s last mile and the commuter corridor.

“The economic case is a local one. Every unit built at our factory carries Nigerian labour and Nigerian value: technicians trained at VIAR’s works in Semarang and now working in Abuja; quality, planning, sales, and after-sales staff; and, around them, a growing network of dealers, service workshops, and parts traders.

“The first units built on the factory floor will be handed over to their owners on the day of the launch. As production expands, the company plans to deepen local content through components and, in time, compressed natural gas and electric models. This will transform a factory in Abuja into a production industry for Nigeria and Nigerians.

“This is a story of Nigerian industry being built at home: a new manufacturing plant in Abuja’s industrial district, built to serve the traders, farmers and commuters of the country,” the statement said.