The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has said that it has confiscated fake and substandard products worth more than N300 billion across the country within the past few months.
Top on the list of seized products were adulterated lubricants, electric cables, and cylinders.
The Director General of the agency, Mr Osita Aboloma, who was represented by Mr Yaya Burka, Head, Ports and Border, SON, disclosed this at a Stakeholders Workshop on SON Act 2015 in Lagos Wednesday.
The SON Act, enacted into law by the Seventh National Assembly, is a revolutionary document which the agency was deploying towards sanitising the Nigerian market of unwholesome products.
“Let me inform you that the big hauls of seizures which the agency made recently is a testimonial that we mean business by harnessing to the fullest, the enormous powers which the act has accorded us.
“Within the last few months, we have confiscated fake and substandard products worth…
