The
Standards Organisation of Nigeria SON will in the next two weeks destroy over
two billion naira worth of substandard cables at its dump site in Shagamu, Ogun
state.
Director
General of SON, Joseph Odumodu stated this at an interactive session with
journalists in Abuja on the organizations achievements in 2012 and target for
2013.
Odumodu
explained that in January 2013 alone the SON has evacuated over twenty trucks
load of energy saving bulbs in Nigeria which has led the organization to
introduce a product registration regime by February this year.
The SON
DG also urged Nigerians to patronize locally made goods which aside from
helping the economy by creating jobs, has a less than five percent substandard
rate as against the over eighty percent rate on imported goods.
May have seized over five million substandard
tyres in the last two years its major challenge is how to safely dispose of
something the FRSC say is responsible for over twenty percent of accidents in
Nigeria, without harming the environment since there are no tyre shredding plants in the country.
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