A man of God who owns a network of churches and a vast arable land for farming has finally realised his dream of developing and marketing cars “Made in Ghana”.
“It’s been in the pipeline since 1971,” said Kwadwo Safo Jnr, a son of the inventor. According to him,”it started with the old man, so it’s been a long time coming.”
Safo Snr started his family business, Kantaka, 20 years ago, making electrical devices from TVs and sound systems to musical instruments and sewing machines in a country with virtually no history of manufacturing. Today, Kantanka Group is split into an electronics division and a car manufacturing company — Ghana’s first car-maker and are doing quite well.
His 30-year old son,Kwado Safe jr is now the chief executive officer of Kantanka Group who has finally gotten the breakthrough to make head way into the market after so many hue and cries for attention and support from the Ghanian government and even the Presidency who have placed orders for a series of his vehicles as a means of empowering young visionary entrepreneurs in Ghana.
The company’s range of sports cars and pick-up trucks range from $18,000 to $35,000 and looks like it’s tough enough to stand next to established brands like Toyota, Mercedes, BMW which see an importation of about 12,000 new and 100,000 second-hand cars imported every year.
Its going to be really tough but Kwadwo Safo is confident and excited that the demand is there and the firm can hold its own in the competition.
Nice one, still prefer our made in naija cars tho.. #innoson #IVM.
Manny the long lost MDB’er
Nice one and the cars are beautiful.
What happens to made in Naija products, what about buy naija and grow the naira. Here we go again with people promoting other countries products.
I’ll suggest he takes is Damn products out of my country before we go HAM in this b!tch.
Hello Mr Safo,if you want me to recognize your product, I’ll suggest you start your operation here, build a plant where this product can be built in the country to help the economy and also employment.
Anything apart from that is nothing and I don’t wanna hear from you until it happens or I burst a cap in ur as*.
Peace and I’m out…
The cars look nice tho…imo