In order to free the
Nigerian market from substandard products, the Standards Organisation of
Nigeria (SON) has destroyed substandard goods valued at over N500
million.
Its Director
General, Osita Aboloma, says the goods did not meet the required production
standards. At the dump site in Lagos,
Aboloma said the action was to serve as a deterence to importers of the
fake products.
He described the continued
act of importing substandard goods as an economic sabotage, warning that SON
will be relentless in intercepting such cargoes.
Aboloma warned all
importers to conform to its SONCAP certification by ensuring that all imported
goods get the SON quality seal.
He said they were
impounded from several locations in the country, adding that most of the goods
found their way into the country through unapproved routes along the borders in
different parts of the country.
He noted that
despite the series of campaigns organised by SON to educate the citizenry about
the harmful effects of these products, importers, especially smugglers, have
continued to indulge in the illicit trade. The goods, he said, were destroyed
to save the lives of Nigerians who are not aware of their harmful effect,
adding that so many people have lost their loved ones by consuming these
substandard products.
“We want to use this
opportunity to beg Nigerians, especially the genuine importers, to always
insist on doing the right thing by working together with the authorities, to
get the right minimum requirements to import goods into the country,” he said.
The DG said the
destruction was carried out in accordance with SON’s procedure, which started
with market survey, surveillance, inventory, seizure, sampling, laboratory
tests and analyses to ascertain conformity to specifications and requirement of
Nigeria Industrial Standards (NIS).
ìTodayÃs exercise is
therefore the culmination of a rigorous process to ascertain the quality of
each product with the sole objective of improving lives through standards by
protecting all of us consumers against the hazards associated with the
distribution, purchase and use of substandard products,î he said.
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