NAN
The Director General of
Standard Organisation (SON), Dr Joseph Odumodu, on Monday said that
organisation destroyed substandard goods worth N10 billion in the last four years.
According
to DG, the items were destroyed from
2011 to date. ``In the next few years, we will reduce substandard products to 15
per cent.
``I am
pleading to you all to change from all ramifications because many people are
dying day by day of cancer as a result of substandard goods coming into the
country.
Chief
Boniface Aniebonam, the Founder of NAGAFF, urged freight forwarders and
clearing agents to collaborate with SON to reduce substandard products.
He said
that seized containers should be checked and conveyed to SON base by the
officials of the organisation instead of checking points.
He
stressed the need for continued campaign to remind agents on the actual time
for moving out cargo from ports.
Chief
Eugene Nweke, President of NAGAFF, said that trade could not be facilitated
under rigid and uncoordinated process and procedures.
The News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president of NAGAFF was represented by
the National Deputy President, Mr Oluwole Adeyemi.
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