SON Tasks Manufacturers on Self-Regulation
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has charged manufacturers and importers to deploy a self-regulatory mechanism to checkmate fake and adulterated goods eating deep into their investments.
The Director-General, SON, Osita Aboloma, said the fight against the preponderance of fake and substandard goods is a collective effort, enjoining manufacturers to support SON in its fight against goods with no economic value
Aboloma who gave the charge in a media chat to review the activities of the organization in the past year, while also giving insights into its areas of focus in year 2020, acknowledged the myriads of challenges hindering the manufacturing sector, assuring manufacturers and importers of the agency’s improved service delivery in all areas of the standards body’s mandate.
Aboloma enumerated the areas as improved standards development, conformity assessment, products and management systems certification activities, metrology, national human capacity development through its training services as well as continuous Stakeholders’ engagement.
The SON Chief Executive commended the organisation’s collaborative activities in 2019 with particular emphasis on standards development, enforcement and diligent prosecution of infractions.
Some of the agency’s key collaborators according to him include the Nigeria Customs Service, the organized private sector, the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management and the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation amongst many others.
Giving further insight into SON’s areas of focus in 2020, Aboloma said the organization is also committed to obtaining accreditation for more of its laboratories, increasing the scope of those already accredited and completion of ongoing infrastructural developments such as regional laboratory complexes and state offices.
He stated that training and retraining of staff will continue with greater emphasis on SON’s collaboration with sister regulatory and security agencies, the organized private sector and development partners.
The SON helmsman said the organisation shall intensify standards compliance and enforcement activities Nationwide and continue the prosecution of ongoing matters in the courts while being prepared to undertake new ones that may emerge.
Aboloma also urged stakeholders to always report suspected standards infractions through the agency’s toll free lines, its interactive website as well as 42 State offices Nationwide
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