LAGOS, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Kehinde Durojaiye, a self-taught Nigerian inventor, has long dreamt of creating a jet car that can run on land, sea and in the air to alleviate heavy traffic and congestion in Lagos.
"I tested it in the sea and a lot of people were surprised it can move on the land and sea," he told the CNN.
Durojaiye, nicknamed "Kenny jet," who has driven 84 miles (135 kilometers) away from Lagos to Ibadan in his unconventional looking car said it could move 120 kilometers per hour on land and at least six knots on the sea.
The 46-year-old inventor spends plenty of time on his "aero-amphibious jet car" and has made four prototype cars from everyday waste like a computer keyboard, a steering wheel recycled from a tricycle and plastic materials from a dump site near his workshop next to Lagos Lagoon.
Sitting on an office chair inside his jet car, Durojaiye said he's trying to complete the flying aspect and hoping to make it fly one day.
"We want the whole world to know it is possible to have a kind of machine that can move on land, on sea and fly and perhaps move under the sea," he said, hoping that one day his car will be a familiar sight across Nigeria.
