Cars45, Nigeria’s leading automotive trading platform has inspected over 40,000 vehicles in 2019 alone as many Nigerians who are desirous of buying both second hand vehicles and new ones are finding the thriving online marketing platform very useful and key in their automobile purchase decision making decisions.
Etop Ikpe, managing director and chief executive of Cars45 who disclosed this at opening of the company’s new facility in Lekki, Lagos however lamented that one of the problems discovered by his team in the course of carrying out assessment of vehicles under its dealership has to do with documentation.
To address this challenge, he said the company had introduced the ShipEasyDirect service to help buyers with documentation to avoid running into problem with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).
According to him, the main goal of the Cars45 as a platform is to guarantee the protection of buyers and sellers when it comes to vehicle documentation. This, he said, has been largely achieved through entrenchment of best practices which every individual on its platform must adhere to.
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He said, “This year alone, we have inspected over 40,000 vehicles across the country and one of the things we found is documentation when it comes to customs duty. People pay some agents, the cars come in, and they are not sure whether the documentation has been done or not. And in most situations, it was discovered that, they are innocently cheated. It is not something they consciously do, it is just that they don’t understand what processes go behind it’’.
Ekpo explained that, the main goal is to ensure that people pay the duty. There is a lot of things that happen at the back end but we are saying come to us and ensure that you have nothing to worry about, get best pricing and most importantly all your relevant taxes, duty and levy will be paid and you can be rest assured that when you are driving your car around, if any customs officer stops or any other relevant authority stops the vehicle owner, it is assured that all necessary paper work is 100 per cent complete.
Meanwhile, Autopreneur’s platform network of Cars45 has empowered thousands of entrepreneurs nationwide in the automotive value chain through the Autopreneur recently introduced by the organization with a recorded sign-ups of over 40,000.
According to him, “Today our entrepreneurial network has more than 4000 sign-ups and more sign-ups every day. So you can see that through our platform, we are empowering more and more people and that has always been our goal’’.
Ekpo stated that one interesting thing to point out here is that the average age, the average employee in Car45 is 26 year old and this shows that, we are heavily reliant on the energy that the youths have.
He admitted that, if properly channeled, the youth population can be the actual key factor that can move Nigeria into the right place. If we can properly channel the energy that the youths have, we can properly provide the support; you can see that we would move in the right direction.
‘’So Cars45 is a company that relies on the energy and potentials of the youth and our company will continue to grow based on the fact that we will continue to believe in empowering young people.” Cars45 concluded.
