While presenting the certificate to PAN at the SON office in Lagos, the Deputy Director, Management Systems certification, Engr. Richard Adewumi, commended the firm for being consistent.
“We are happy PAN is still producing reliable vehicles in Nigeria. PAN is very qualified for recertification having met the required standards.”
The Acting Managing Director, PAN Nigeria, Ms Taiwo Oluleye, said PAN is totally committed to the production and delivery of quality vehicles as well as services that meet and exceed the expectations of its customers while keeping to best practices and standards.
According to the statement, the firm with its plant in Kaduna produces and markets Peugeot and Higer vehicles. The firm has a vision to evolve as the most responsive and endearing motor manufacturing company as it exploits opportunities within the local market to improve the content, value-added and competitiveness.
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The directive by the Federal Government was contained in a letter issued by the Ministry of Transportation.
According to the letter issued, the move was to facilitate the enforcement of the axle load limits necessary to prevent damage of Nigerian roads caused by overloading.
President Muhammadu Buhari had earlier signed the instrument of accession of the supplementary Act relating to the harmonization of Standards and procedures for the control of dimensions, weights and axle load of heavy-duty goods transport vehicles.
As a result, SON has been directed by the FG to ensure that the weighbridges at the ports and loading bays are fully calibrated
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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), on Thursday, destroyed over 6,000 expired and substandard imported tyres confiscated in Port Harcourt, Rivers.
Supervising the destruction in Enugu, Mr Obinna Manafa, the Director, Inspectorate and Compliance Directorate of SON, said that the destruction was to prevent access of such tyres into the markets and homes.
Manafa explained that the products were intercepted and impounded by the Agency in Port Harcourt two weeks ago, following intelligence report about the warehouse where they were housed.
The director, who did not attach any monetary value to the expired and stuffed tyres, said that it runs into several millions of naira.
The officials evacuated cartons of detergents from retail outlets while others were quarantined within the shops, all valued at N55 million.
The enforcement team visited four retail outlets and Daraju Industries Limited, a company caught flouting the agency’s regulations on detergent production.
Speaking with newsmen at the end of the exercise, Umoru said the products were evacuated and quarantined because they contained phosphate, which is harmful to humans and the environment.
He said SON had since warned manufacturing companies to stop the use of phosphate in the production of detergents, but they turned deaf ears to the regulation.
The coordinator said the organisation had carried out analysis on 36 detergent products nationwide, and 14 were discovered to contain phosphate, hence, the enforcement exercise.