The Director-General of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Dr. Joseph Odumodu, has said that the two weeks deadline earlier handed down by the agency to dealers in substandard products across the country would not be extended.
Odumodu said this when traders under the auspices of National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANT), Abuja led by its chairman, Prince Edozie Ugwu, paid a visit to the agency in the wake of the two weeks ultimatum handed down by the SON to all markets in the country to clear the markets of fake and substandard products or face the sledge hammer.
Represented by the Director, Technical Services, Mr. Damian Udenna Agbanelo, the SON boss emphasised that the essence of the zero tolerance to substandard products was to ensure that products imported and manufactured locally were safe and competitive enough to meet the consumers’ hard earned income and also key into the transformation agenda of the federal government.
While applauding SON’s market sensitisation drive as the first of its kind by any government agency to the markets, and pledging to partner with it,? the association appealed for an extension of time of up to 120 days to enable them rid? the markets of the undesirable products.
It further promised to organise a task force and committees that would be saddled with the responsibilities of sensitising its members , and particularly? bring to book those found to have flauted the directive.