Gilbert Dahz: I am a mechanic with a difference

Gilbert Dahz is the CEO of God’s Own Mechanic Workshop. He attended his formal education in Ajegunle, Lagos.

He approaches the mechanic business differently, ensuring that customers do not go back with their car problems.

He said he found out during his secondary school days that he was unable to face academic work. He decided to focus on football, but his parents asked him to stop, later advising him to go into vocational training, which was how he started the current business.

He said what inspired him to go into this particular business was that he liked tankers and the way people repaired cars, stating that it was like a magic to him.

He said that he gathered little money from the white collar job he did to enable him buy equipment to start his business in Lagos.

He said most masters were not ready to teach younger people the skills involved in the business because they didn’t want their apprentices to know what they knew.

“They think that after learning from them, the apprentices would want to leave them and go with all the experience they have impacted on them. At times they would not allow the apprentices to establish around where they are, so they give them a lot of problems and accuse them falsely, but all one needs to do is to commit all into prayers for God to lead them through,” he advised.

He advised young entrepreneurs willing to establish a mechanic workshop to go through higher institutions to read more about it in the form of mechanical engineering and then learn the practical side of it after school, saying that this would surely distinguish them.

“Things are automated now. There are some machines which you have to use laptops to test, otherwise you will be going round and not be able to fix it well,” he said.

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