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 wish 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 wish 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.
Fashina, Rilwan Adebola
Director, Public Relations
For: SON Management
