Etop Ikpe, ceo and co-founder of Cars45 has said that they are committed to sanitizing used automobile market so as to bring about transparency and sanity in the sector.
Ikpe stated this during a media parley with select journalists’ dubbed ‘C2C Marketplace launch and Africa Roll out’ on Friday in Lagos.
He explained that their aim is basically to support people in making the right decisions when they want to buy or sell cars.
According to him, “As a trading platform, I will like to restate that our platform basically supports people in making the right decisions when they want to buy and sell cars.
“We want to help them make decisions in a fair and transparent way regarding anything that has to do with their automobile experience.
“Cars45 is typically in the business of helping people through their car inspection reports, due diligence on the cars and fair pricing policy to ensure that the issue that usually arise when people want to dispose or buy cars are solved and eliminated.”
He further revealed that with their valuable contributions, the industry which was marred with a lot of fraudulent activities and manipulations is now becoming more and more transparent.
Ikpe emphasized that the more transparent and visible the industry becomes, more business people and entrepreneurs will begin to partake objectively in the industry.
He further stated that they initiated many human capital development programs that were aimed at empowering unemployed youths in the country.
He noted that the programs initiated were Franchise Program, Retail Partners Program and Sales Agent Program also dubbed as Autopreneur Program.
He explained that the reasons for these initiatives were to bring transparency in the industry as well as enabling more and more Nigerians to participate to be able to generate income to build and support their families.
While speaking on the recent launch into Ghana and Kenyan market, Ikpe revealed that their goal is to export processes they diligently built over the years to these markets so as to bring transparency in those markets.
He said, “We want to export our processes that we diligently created over the last 3 years. Our understanding of the automobile industry, like pricing, inspection and other techniques that we’ve built will be exported to these people.
“We will teach them the best practices in the industry, how best to sell or buy a car, use of social media and maintenance”.
