Responding, the Director General of DICON, said that the first batch of the 10 MRAPs in production at its factory in Kaduna would be delivered in December, 2019. 
He assured that the company had the capacity and the manpower to execute the agreement in line with the government’s plan to develop local content. According to him, I want tp assure you that we will meet the timeline for this contract...
....and the first set of 10 of the vehicles will be ready by December this year. "The partnership has brought about the first indigenous MRAP vehicle and I want to thank the Chief of Army Staff for having confidence in us which ordinarily would have been mission impossible.
“The beautiful thing about what we are witnessing today is that we are doing both research, development and production of this vehicle together.“That is why in less than a year, we have the prototype produced.We are going into the mass production phase with this contract signing
“I want to assure COAS that the standard that is contained in the characteristics of MRAP vehicle would be maintained. “We have passed the phase of research and development, we are in full production,” he said. Many senior army officers were in attendance during the...
...historic event which include the Chief of Logistics Army Maj Gen JI Unuigbe, Chief of Projects & Programmes Maj Gen MSA Aliyu, Corp Commander Ordnance Maj Gen OA Akintade, Director Legal Services Maj Gen YI Shalangwa and Commander Command Engineering Depot Brig Gen SS Araoye.
