Nigerian vehicle manufacturing company, Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing, has delivered the first set of vehicles manufactured for the Government of Sierra Leone as ordered by the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Defence. This development is a fulfilment of the promise made during a working visit to Innoson Vehicles by senior officials of the Sierra Leone Defence Ministry led by Mr Edward Soloku, the Minister of Internal Affairs as well as Sierra Leone Road Transport Corporation (SLRTC) led by its President Mr. Isaac Ken-Green. The different vehicle models bought within that dispensation are for the current administration.
Cornell Osigwe, head of corporate communications of the corporation revealed in a statement, that the Government of Sierra Leone led by President Julius Maada Bio placed an order for the manufacturing of Innoson Vehicles valued at $4.7Million for the officers of Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF). The first set of these vehicles was supplied from Nigeria to Sierra Leone and was discharged at Queen Elizabeth 2 Port (Sierra Leone's sea Port "Water Quay") in Free Town for distribution to military officers across the country. In one of the many reports in the local media on purchase of the made-in-Nigeria vehicles, a popular blog in Sierra Leone, Focus News Blog, hailed President Bio for believing "that our Army Officers deserve better."
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