Talented Nigerian Man Builds Foldable Electric Wheelchair with Local Materials, Uses it in Video

A talented Nigerian man identified as Honesty Godwin has built an electric wheelchair from local materials that can be folded and proudly show how it works in a video.

In the video, the talented man, Honesty said he made the wheelchair using locally-sourced materials and did it from the scratch, he folded and unfolded the wheelchair for people to see how it works.

Honesty had taken to LinkedIn to show off his creation which he said was made with materials sourced

In his words; “My wheel chair project is done and dusted and I must confess that it wasn’t a cool ride up here. Infact the past two weeks of my life made me learn a whole lot of things afresh.

“Building such a device from scratch is not easy especially because I had to source everything locally here in Nigeria. But despite the depth of it all I came out victorious!!

“This I did without any strong educational background from a good university like Massachusetts Institute of Technology  or internship in a profound company like Tesla 

“Imagine what my results would have been if I had a scholarship to study in Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

“Imagine how sophisticated it would have been if I got an opportunity to partner with Innoson Vehicles 

“Imagine the problems this and other of my projects can solve in Africa if the likes of OBI IYIEGBU or Tony O. Elumelu, C.O.N  invested in me.

“In this video, you can see me unfold the chair by dragging the backrest upward and locked it in place by pushing two knobs at the median. This was repeated at the beginning and end of the video to unfold and fold it back in place.

“After unfolding it, I sat on the sit and used the joystick placed at the handle to control the movements. And every move from the joystick was immediately followed by a seamless move on the wheelchair.“

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Social media users reacts;

Hussain Adegbite commented: “This is amazing, Keep up the good work sir. But you know sir , you could solve a lot of people’s problems with this technology. “

“This will be highly demanded by people if they find it to be cheaper than the company manufactured ones.“

“You shouldn’t rest on this, find a way to get investors and you’ll be surprised at how many People this technology would help, especially in a country like ours. Honesty Godwin.”

Mary E. Commented: “Great work here Honesty Godwin, Like Sunday Oluseyi Falaye mentioned, start working on the patent and trademark for your innovation as you do not want your idea stolen or plagiarised now that you have shown it to the world. “

“Even when trying to get investors, be careful not to talk about your secret spice. They can try to steal your idea and side line you, but if you do not let out your trade secret, they will not be able to do it like you do.“

Adefolaju Adetona: “This is great Honesty Godwin . God will grant you all your need to build a multi-billion dollars company to produce this and many more products.”

Emmanuel B. Giwa: “Amazing, there’s a lot of improvements to be made but I trust this fits for a prototype. This is ground-breaking and the world is watching, keep at it!.”

Juliet Okechukwu: “Wooow,this is so innovative and Good. I know it exists already but I’m so proud of the fact that a Nigerian engineer like me could produce this…by himself….the sky is your stepping stone Honesty 🤩..I love this!.”

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