The Chairman, Coalition of Federated Association and capital territory tricycle and motor cycle riders, dealers and operators Comrade Thomas Ali Danjuma disclosed yesterday that the producers of tricycles popular called keke are lamenting that Abuja has flooded with substandard keke, as the engines of the keke are all dead and smoky on arrival
The Dubai Auto Gallery DAG are the distributors of Keke in Nigeria, aside from the first batch of keke that was brought into the country years back the distributors and manufacturers have been pouring substandard keke into the country thereby making Nigeria a dumping ground for this products.
The Chairman disclosed this while speaking with the Nation in Abuja, lamenting that even though DAG and the manufacturers gave assurance of a one year warranty there has not been any case where they repaired any keke for buyers or change the keke that was bought. To make matters worse they don’t even have any service station in Abuja, so the moment the keke develop fault they will have to use the service of a road side mechanic.
He said, “DAG in partnership with Indian manufacturing company are the manufacturers of keke, they have their agents all over Nigeria, the first batch of keke was very good and durable but subsequently they started refurbishing and repackaging old keke to Nigeria market.
“As I am speaking with you they use first grade and very durable keke in India and other parts of the world but when it comes to shipping them to Nigeria they repackage abandoned keke to Nigeria. Under two months the engine will start smoking seriously.
“The assured us when they were delivering that they were giving twelve months warranty, as soon as the keke is delivered they disappear into thin air, they do not have an office in Abuja, not even a service station that we can go to as keke operators. When we have issues with our keke, we call and complain, they are not bothered, and they just keep drippling us. Since they do not have an office in Abuja we call their tool numbers which they directed us to in Abuja, when we get tired of calling we make do with road side mechanics.
On their handbill there is a twelve months warrantee, they have north, East, West, and Central office no Abuja but according to them that central is Abuja, you can only speak to them but you cannot locate them, their call tool number is there, they continue dribbling you.
We have presently written to the Consumer Protection Council and the Standard Organization Nigeria SON, for import of substandard keke Napep products. We expect them to take actions immediately.
The Nation spoke with the overall boss of DAG, Mr. Fildous Ahmad Ahmad, who said he is not aware that the company is flooding Nigerian market with substandard keke. He assured Nation that he will speak with Comrade Danjuma the Chairman of keke association and get back to the reporter.
