Yemisi Izuora
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), and the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) have agreed to work together to stop importation of substandard goods into the country.
Joseph Odumodu,director general of the agency who visited the association’s headquarters in Lagos said the organisation destroyed substandard goods worth N10 billion in the last four years.
He said that the items were destroyed from 2011 to date as he urged freight forwarders to collaborate with the organisation to halt importation of substandard products.
“In the next few years, we will reduce substandard products to 15 per cent. “Now, we are going through the period of change since the election of President Muhammadu Buhari, who was elected based on his honesty and integrity.
“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. “You should all be part of the positive change by complying with the e-Product Registration and e-Provision Clearance Certificate platform,’’ Odumodu warned.
He commended the Nigeria Customs Service for supporting the organisation.
Chief Boniface Aniebonam, the Founder of NAGAFF, promised to collaborate with the agency and urged freight forwarders and clearing agents to collaborate with SON to reduce substandard products.