Harboursandport.com: Lagos - The Management of Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON has said that the recent report blaming the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS for the influx of substandard into the country attributed to its Director-General Mallam Farouk Salim is not true.
A
statement signed by Director, Public Relations of SON, Adebola Fashina made
available to Vanguard noted that the SON boss was misquoted.
The
statement read in part, “The attention of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria
Management has been drawn to some publications misquoting the Director-General,
Mallam Farouk Salim following the destruction of some substandard products at
its facility in Lagos on Wednesday.
“The
Management of SON wishes to state unequivocally that it holds the Nigerian
Customs Service leadership and officers in very high esteem, and have been
working in very close collaboration with the service all over the Nation to
substantially reduce the importation and distribution of substandard products
in Nigerian markets.
“These
were publicly expressed by the Director-General, Mallam Farouk Salim recently
in Lagos and Port Harcourt at interactive forums with maritime stakeholders in
the two cities. The challenge of importation, smuggling, manufacture, and
distribution of substandard products is hydra-headed involving some unpatriotic
Nigerians and their foreign collaborators, and requires the continuous
cooperation of all regulatory and security agencies, patriots, and quality
vanguards.
“The
Management of SON wishes to therefore correct the erroneous impression that it
attributes the influx of substandard products into Nigeria to the Nigerian
Customs Service. Deliberate efforts were made by SON to request the publishers
of the erroneous stories to withdraw them from circulation.”
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