NSE honours founder, Zeetin Engineering

The founder of Zeetin Engineering Limited, Azibaola Robert, has charged the government and urged wealthy Nigerians to improve on the infrastructure development of the country by investing in the purchase of machines that make machines, rather than spending their money on intangible things.

Robert stated this on Tuesday at his investiture as a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) by the President and Chairman in Council of the NSE, Engineer Babagana Mohammed, FNSE, FNICE, at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

Robert said that buying machines that make machines would help catalyse the infrastructure development of the country.

“Nobody will develop your country for you,” he said. “It is time for us to be investing in machines that make machines. When we do, we will be able to make the machines that we need for our development, and therefore, no need to import them. This will create jobs for our population, it will also help us save our foreign exchange; we will not be over reliant on imports; and we also can begin to export to other countries.”

Robert said that his company, Zeetin, was focused on precision engineering, technology, heavy-duty and production of metals, spares that would help the engineering and infrastructure development of the Automotive, Agricultural, Locomotive, Marine, Aviation industries.

Located in the Idu Industrial Area of Abuja, Zeetin has installed various high-end tech, CNC-machines which, Robert said, were to be used for producing the first Nigeria-made automobile engine.

The investiture ceremony which also witnessed the honouring of the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar Garba, as a Fellow of the NSE, was part of the activities put together by the NSE to mark its 2021 National Engineering Conference and Annual General Meeting, tagged ‘Coal City’, which began on Monday.