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Okyenhene purchases customised Kantanka SUV
The vehicles, manufactured by the head of the Christo Asafo Mission of Ghana is one of many innovations and inventions the industrialist-cum-preacher has produced in recent times
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He purchased the vehicle at the cost of GH¢150,000.
Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin who inspected the vehicles at a short ceremony to hand over the vehicle to him at his palace at Kyebi in the Eastern region on Monday, April 24 called on government institutions to purchase and use the made in Ghana (Kantanka) vehicles.
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"Government can buy a whole lot for the Police, Fire Service, Immigration among others instead of importing Land cruisers of $130,000 and $140,000 when we can purchase some for $35,000 locally with repair services," he said.
The vehicles, manufactured by the head of the Christo Asafo Mission of Ghana is one of many innovations and inventions the industrialist-cum-preacher has produced in recent times.
General Manager of Kantanka Automobile Company, Kwadwo Safo Kantanka Junior, appealed to the government to grant the company a tax waiver on the importation of its raw materials.
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"We have pickups that you can take to farm and normal construction works. We have pickups for executive uses. We have all kinds of models to fit any job description. We are into negotiations with the government, but the only thing is if we can adopt the strategy that Nigeria and South Africa use whereby automobile manufacturers or assemblers get tax waivers and tax holidays," he said.
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