It is conspicuously clear that President Muhammadu Buhari is creating enabling environment for the private sector to thrive. This he has demonstrated in the past with Dangote group of company and Bua group of company and Innoson Vehicles with several waivers granted. Buhari administration threw its support behind Innoson Vehicles and that is why Nigeria's Federal Road Safety Corps, Federal Fire Service, and the Nigerian Police use vehicles from Innoson Vehicles. Also, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), the Nigerian Army, and the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) partnered with Innoson Vehicles, with this, the Chairman/CEO of Innoson Vehicles, Chief Innocent Chukwuma was able to expand his investment by opening two new plants, which has a combined capacity to produce 32,000 vehicles per year and employs about 1,000 Nigerians.
Recently, during the event when Air Peace Limited was signing a four-year partnership deal with the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) to become the exclusive airline sponsor of the country’s national teams, the airline would fly the Nigerian players and officials to Cape Verde with its new Embraer E195-E2 aircraft, the Chairman of Air Peace, Mr Allen Onyema, hailed the President Buhari-led administration for granting airline operators waiver on importation of aircraft, as well as removing Value Added Tax (VAT) from air tickets.
"Mr Onyema explained that the brand new planes Air Peace imported, each one of them, if they are to pay the duty, it would be about 985m per aircraft. Now Onyema bringing 13 aircraft. So multiply N985m by 13. Let’s say almost a billion that the federal government and President Buhari have saved Air Peace. That’s about N13bn that Onyema would have paid as a duty. Three of the aircraft had arrived while the remaining 10 were being expected and the airline had projected to provide over 8,000 jobs with the 13 aircraft on order. It also has purchase rights for 17 of the same aircraft type."
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