Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Monday in Lagos seized three containers of gas cylinders and sealed four warehouses stocked with substandard generating sets worth N400 million.
Mr Bede Obayi, Head of Inspectorate and Compliance Unit, SON, told journalists that the organisation’s taskforce made the huge seizure based on intelligence reports.
Obayi said that the cylinders were being smuggled into the country when the task force intercepted it around Okokomaiko, a Lagos suburb.
He said that the goods had been sampled and sent to the laboratory for a final test.
“On the spot examination showed that the goods did not have the necessary import documents and failed the basic standard parameters.
We will take action against the importers by evacuating the goods from the warehouses. We do not want goods that do not meet the required standard to be in circulation,” Obayi said.
“We have put a series of measures in place to deter importers of fake and substandard goods into the country. They no longer have any hiding place, the exit of SON from the sea ports, notwithstanding,” he said.
According to Obayi, the importers and manufacturers of substandard goods would be made to face the full weight of the law.
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