Ogun’s first digital mechanic workshop

For the auto-mechanics in Ogun State, it’s a new dawn. For the first time since the creation of the state in 1976, they now have modern tools and machines to work with.

At the opening of the “Four Modern Automobile Diagnostic Workshops” at Obada-Oko Mechanic Village in Ewekoro Local Government Area last week, it was encomiums galore for the governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, for identifying with every stratum of the society.

We are adept at improvisation in this part of the world—if the desirable is not available, then the available becomes the desirable.

It is not because we don’t want or like good things, but a progressive destruction of the economy over decades has brought us to where we are today.

The Nigerian elite are usually alarmed by the degree of risks our technicians regularly expose themselves to in the name of improvisation.

Some have lost limbs, arms, fingers and even lives on account of working with wrong tools or engaging in hare-brained improvisation. A majority of the elite have equally suffered loss or damage of valuable property as a result of this.

Most of the technicians at the inauguration ceremony of the “MITROS Digital Workshops” were pleasantly surprised to see how modern equipment could make their work so easy. Most of them were seeing some of the machines for the first time. The state government had equally brought in experts to train them on the use of the digital machines.

Without any doubt, this is a real feather in the cap of the governor of Ogun State.

Soyombo Opeyemi

Abeokuta