SON Seeks Return To SeaPorts

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 The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has emphasized the need to return to the nation’s ports in order to check the influx of substandard products into the country.
Speaking with journalists in Ilorin, on Monday, when he led a team on an inspection visit to a steel manufacturing company in the state capital,
Farooq Salim, the Director-General of the SON, who gave the advice when he led a team on an inspection visit to a steel manufacturing company in Ilorin,lamented that chasing substandard products all over the country rather than waiting for them at the ports and border stations has been challenging to the regulators.
He said: “It is important to note that non-involvement of SON at some ports in the country’s operations has continued to pose challenges particularly to the agency’s compliance and monitoring units.”
Salim maintained that it is only in Nigeria that the nation’s standard organisation’s directorate is not at the ports to authenticate goods brought into the country.
He added that “This is counter-productive to the economy of the nation.
“It is easier to fight the influx of substandard products at the points of entry than chasing them around all over the country in markets and warehouses, among others,” he added.
According to him,over 85 per cent of the products imported into the country daily, monthly or yearly come through the seaports and waterways, adding  it would be difficult to ignore the maritime sector operators in the quest for zero imports of substandard and unwholesome products, as well as the federal government’s ease of doing business policy.
Also speaking,Alhaji Kamoru Yusuf, chairman of KAM Holdings, advocated the  for the reintroduction of pre-shipment inspection of goods at the nation’s ports to check the proliferation of arms, substandard products and loss of revenue in the country.
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