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.