An Abuja based non governmental organisation, Helpline Foundation for the Needy, has called on FCT Administration and other relevant agencies to assist a 21-year old Surajo Ismaila, who locally fabricated a tractor.
hails from Rubochi in Kuje Area Council of territory, to achieve his goal as inventor.
President of the Foundation, Dr. Jumai Ahmadu made the appeal when Ismaila, who hails from Rubochi in Kuje Area Council of the territory, drove the tractor from Rubochi to the secretariat of the FCT Administration in Area 11, Garki.
Dr Jummai, who said that the FCT has lost some of its best brains because they could not get the needed support from government and the private sector, assured the Abuja native inventor of assistance, stressing that his ideas could turn the FCT into an industrial hub.
“We have lost some of our best brains by because we have not properly looked after own our. I am hopeful that Surajo’s case will be different due to the uniqueness and significance of his range of knowledge. Now that other countries are yet to discover and take him away, I urge the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology and others to act fast. Please, let us develop our Elbert Einstein,” she stated.
Speaking to journalists at the secretariat, Ismaila stated that: “I can fabricate more of this in Nigeria for our farmers to make their work easy for them. The tractor has components that can be attached to it that will make it convenient to be used for planting, harvesting and carrying load. This is a minimum tractor that I made.
“I am looking for assistance from the federal government and other related agencies. I don’t have the machinery to make my work faster so it took me about two years of working with crude, self-made tools to fabricate this at the cost of N200,000. If I have the standard, modern equipment, I can manufacture 10 of them in one month and it will be cheaper, because I don’t even have a wielding machine, I pay to wield.
“There are about 20 projects, some of which I have done while others, I am still working on, and all I need is support from the government and good spirited individuals, they include railway train, electronic voting machine which counts automatically and prevents multiple voting by rejecting second insertion of same PVC, planting machine, bulldozer, grader and dum truck.”
The young inventor also claimed that he has fabricated pushing robot which can be used for shopping, in hospitals and at airports, excavator, standing fan, block molding machine, solar generator, fuel pump which can dispense and take readings, as well as a ship and water tank, among others.”
When asked the level of assistance he wants from the government, he said, “What I want from the government is for them to assist me and build a modern workshop and equip it for me so that I can fabricate all these things and positively impact the society in modern science.”
