"For instance, Toyota, can you imagine the number of Toyota vehicles that are bought by the government and its agencies? […] We must stop contributing to job creation abroad and not jobs created in the country," local media quoted the Nigerian official as saying at the ceremony.
"At some point, we need to be dramatic and take dramatic positions; otherwise, things will not change. We need to get to a point where we will give a timeline," he said. "If we do not find anything evidently in our country to demonstrate their work, we will still ban some classes of vehicles.”
"Let history remember us as the generation that refused to let Nigeria remain a consumer economy, that fought to revive our industries, and that took bold and decisive steps to create an industrial revolution worthy of the greatness of this nation," Aganga stated, adding that there must be a "shared commitment to the principles of industrial excellence" from the government, industry, finance, and academia.