LAGOS—CHAIRMAN of Zinox Group, Mr. Leo Stan Ekeh, yesterday, said his company can deliver the 120,000 Direct Data Capturing, DDC machines, INEC said it needed for the e-registration of voters, within seven weeks of contract award if it was awarded the deal.
Ekeh said the INEC DDC machines could only be delivered by a company with manufacturing, distribution and integration facilities with at least 75per cent control of resources internally to meet the deadline.

He noted that Zinox had the facilities in Nigeria, South Africa, Europe and Asia including a 14_branch local nationwide office network to facilitate support.

Ekeh spoke in Lagos, when executive members of the Joint Action Committee for ICT Awareness and Development, JACITAD, a non governmental organisation which serves as umbrella body of ICT media professionals and other stakeholders in Nigeria, paid a courtesy call at Zinox headquarters to congratulate the management for emerging number one with the recent International Data Corporation, IDC ranking.

He said that Zinox had already obtained written commitments from Intel Corporation, Microsoft and No1. Webcam and Finger Print Scanner manufacturers in the world to deliver the last unit of product by the fifth week complete with an after sales support package.

He noted that these companies enabled Zinox in 2006 to intervene for INEC within 10 days and that he had again obtained their proactive commitments in the hope that his company might be considered.

Ekeh said: “We should be wary of  commission takers because Nigeria has little options if there are disappointments and I think 2006 bore enough lessons.”

The JACITAD Executive reminded Ekeh that having declared during launch that Zinox would make Nigeria a force to be reckoned with in Information Technology, it was also good to encourage the company as it fulfils the promise bit by bit.

The group said given the scope and quality of jobs rendered both at the private and public sectors as rationalized by the IDC ranking, Zinox had delivered on that promise, adding that the company’s achievement reassured Nigeria’s youths that the country can participate in the sharing of emerging global wealth generated by knowledge.

Ekeh said the DDC machine was a Zinox equipment in the first place, adding that it was produced when the company was invited to intervene to save the voters registration in 2006.

And that Zinox had factories in Nigeria, Taiwan and China; a logistics arms in Europe, and Research and Development arms in Taiwan and Nigeria, which can give his company edge to deliver these units within seven weeks from date of confirmed order.

He added: “The Zinox Group can match the pricing of any foreign competitor, if given a chance. We are a Nigerian company and this is not a sin. We have rescued INEC and major national projects in the recent past, we don’t blow our trumpet because we pay attention to only the science of business and not the politics.”