Hinging its new agenda on the strength of its ‘operation flush campaign’ and integration of its online platform with other stakeholders, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has announced plans to reduce the level of substandard goods in the country by 10 per cent before end of 2016.
According to the agency, efforts are underway to stem the illicit act from the current 35 per cent to less than 10 per cent before the end of 2016.
The Director General, SON, Dr. Joseph Odumodu said the influx of substandard goods is indirectly killing local production in the country, maintaining that made-in-Nigeria goods have continued to compete with substandard goods endangering the lives and properties of innocent citizens in the country.
Odumodu during a sensitisation seminar on the integration of SON’s e-certificate into Nigeria Integrated Customs Information System (NICIS) tagged ‘Trade facilitation via automation of SON’s service, said ‘before the end of the year, we shall be singing a new song. We have a new mandate to enter any place and remove goods we find wanting.
