Jail terms for substandard products fakers
The proliferation of substandard products in the country has continued to generate great concern despite efforts by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to check the menace. The recent directive given the agency by the Federal Government to reduce the volume of substandard products to, at least, 15 percent by next year is quite in order. To ensure compliance with the new order, government also proposed jail terms for manufacturers and importers of fake products.
These fresh measures were unveiled recently by the Director-General of the organization, Dr. Joseph Odumodu, at the 10th year anniversary of SON Conformity Assessment Programme (SONCAP) in Lagos. Undoubtedly, the danger of inferior goods, either manufactured locally or imported, cannot be over-emphasised. Nigerian market cannot continue to be a dumping ground for substandard, cheap and fake products from Asian countries.
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