Garu Technologies Nigeria Limited Chief Executive Alhaji Lukman Garu is showing the way in auto repair business. His Auto Diagnostics, which makes service delivery faster and responsive, in line with customers’ demand, is the next big thing for aspiring entrepreneurs. DANIEL ESSIET reports.
For aspiring entrepreneurs, particularly those in the auto repair business, car dignostics is perhaps, the next big thing. With the business expected to grow rapidly in the future, Garu Technologies Nigeria Limited, Chief Executive, Alhaji Lukman Garu, recommends that this is the right time to explore the bountiful opportunities therein.
Garu, who was one of the tech gurus that midwifed the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) engineering in Nigeria, first ran a fledgling GSM engineering startup, selling repair technologies and solutions.
He was not deterred by the big players. He sought and developed a winning approach, which was the use of cheap repair technology. With time, he became the toast of clients in the market.
Garu encouraged young people to start phone repair business. According to him, it was cost effective to set up a telephone repairs startup in terms of infrastructure and manpower.
Having made an instant success of the business, he quickly transited into car diagnostics, which again became a huge success. This was why he has been encouraging young Nigerians and retirees to explopre the opportunities in auto diagnostics. He has since been training young graduates and entrepreneurs to provide repair and maintenance services based on electronic diagnosis-procedures.
Garu targets individuals without a background in car maintenance. He also provides technicians with an opportunity to brush up their diagnostic skills and learn new techniques.
He has been searching for interested entrepreneurs from all walks of life, including house wives, retired persons, unemployed and anybody who likes to work and earn money to explore the opportunities in car diagnostics.
The business, according to him, is not only lucrative, but has the potential to create jobs. He said with auto diagnostics, service professionals can obtain accurate and detailed diagnosis data about each vehicle while allowing a highly efficient and reliable workshop process.
According to Garu, modern vehicle technology continues to advance at a fast pace and diagnostic expertise is becoming a more critical part of the vehicle servicing process.
Garu is not the only entrepreneur who has carved a niche in car diagnostics busniess. OVH Energy Academy, a training academy owned by Oando Energy, has also keyed into the busniess.
The firm, in partnership with Garu, has been seeking to fill the skills gap in auto diagnostics expertise for the maintenance of modern vehicles.
The partnership ensures that businesses in automobile repairs have access to top talents entering the industry.
Garu’s firm recently presented a car engine training simulator and demonstrator, alongside five pieces of Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) scanner and 500 pieces of universal oil filter wrench to OVH Energy Academy.
OVH Energy graduates have a strong reputation for being well-trained, career ready workers. This will afford small businesses and entrepreneurs the latest technology as well as high-tech, hands on instruction in vehicle diagnostics, maintenance and repairs.
The Head of Lubes, OVH Energy Marketing Ltd, Lilian Ikokwu, said his company’s goal with Oleum academy was to create a well-qualified blue-collar workforce, which will be able to meet local industry demands by providing the tools and resources required to remain relevant in the dynamic auto maintenance industry.
Ikokwu explaimed that Oando has deemed it imperative to give back to the Nigerian society by educating and equipping auto technicians with the modern ways of troubleshooting fault in cars as well as solving car related problems.
She said about 5000 auto technicians will benefit from this gesture within the next five years, adding that more than 1500 have already benefited.
Ikokwu hailed the partnership with Garu Technologies Nigeria Limited, which she said will enable technicians meet up with the required standard and have certified qualification.
“The impact of this social responsibility to the society cannot be over emphasised. The good gesture by OVH Energy will improve the life span of many Nigerian cars, reduce the frustration of car owners, and most importantly, keep the auto technicians in business with modern technology at their disposal,” Ikokwu said.
The gesture, she said, will also boost technicians’ human capacity, which will in turn improve artisans’ economic activities and positively affect the society and the economy at large.
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