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The National Assembly has been urged to support efforts made by the current leadership of the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) aimed at tackling the menace of substandard steel products in the country.
Such support will help to strengthen and bolster the campaign against substandard steel products and tackle economic saboteurs.
The Iron Rods Distributors Association of Nigeria in a statement signed by its chairman and secretary, Buhari Alabi and Abubakar Aliyu, said the sought support was critical to the success of the campaign to stop substandard steel products from entering the Nigerian market.
The Director General of the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), Mr Farouk Salim, had recently ordered manufacturers and importers of steel products to get fake and substandard steel products out of the Nigerian market and prepare themselves for harmonized steel standard across West Africa.
Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has restated its resolve to safeguard lives and properties in the country by seizing a large cache of stuffed substandard tyres worth over N600M at a remote location in Asese Area, off Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Obafemi Owode Local Government of Ogun State.
The Director-General, Mallam Farouk Salim stated at the scene of the seizure that unscrupulous importers were taking advantage of the vastness of the country to warehouse substandard products at different hideouts, assuring that they would not escape the enforcement activities of his organisation.
Salim revealed that the tyres which were discovered after a tip-off were stuffed four into one, loaded in about one hundred (100) containers undetected through the entry ports without SON’s knowledge and shipped to the warehouse. This according to him further underscores the need for SON to be present at the nation’s ports of entry.
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The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has urged the federal government to consider a policy aimed at returning substandard goods to countries of origin to boost consumers’ confidence and strengthen international trade.
Mallam Farouk Salim, SON’s Director-General, said, at an enforcement exercise on Monday, the policy would address the preponderance of imported fake and substandard goods in the country.
Salim noted that an arrangement to return goods with no economic value to countries notable for producing substandard goods was timely and critical.
“One arrangement I would love to have is the ability to return substandard goods back to country of origin, while also paying back the importers of the products if they were wrongly deceived.
One of these is that farmers do not take ginger farming as a serious business.
Also, the areas of land cultivated by majority of the farmers were small, until recently.
In 2016, ginger farmers cultivated an average of 0.25 hectares. Nowadays, the average farm size is between 0.5 and 1.0 hectre.
Ginger, which is a root crop and a typical herb extensively grown across the world for its pungent aromatic under-ground stem or rhizome, is an important export commodity globally, with demand growing in Asia, Europe and America.
Ginger cultivation started in the country in 1927 around Kwoi, Kubacha, Kafanchan and Kagarko areas of southern Kaduna State and around the neighbouring parts of Plateau State.