The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) says it
now has the powers to jail dealers in substandard products for ten years.
Acting Director General of SON, Dr. Paul Angya, said
this at a stakeholders’ forum for tyre dealers in Lagos yesterday.
“Our new Act 2015 empowered us to jail promoters of
sub-standard product up to 10 years and we will not relent to jail any
culprit.”
Angya, who threatened to charge any dealer of fake
tyres for murder, lamented a recent report by the Federal Road Safety
Commission (FRSC) that out of 8,986 accidents recorded in 2015, 722 were due to
tyre bursts which resulted in the death of 446 persons.
He said: “We are going to stamp out corruption among
the tyre dealers; we are going to set up a taskforce and we will not sleep
until we confirm that accidents in the country are not traced to substandard
tyres again.
“We are ready to eliminate importation of
sub-standard products into Nigeria; because of this, we have reached out to
other government agencies to ensure that we work together and stop smugglers of
fake products into the country.
“If you have fake tyre in your shop make sure you
dispose them in the next 24 hours, thereafter our team will visit you and we
will charge you for murder.
“To eliminate corruption from SON, we are going to
introduce e-payment, e-invoice and e-receipt to stamp out corruption from the
system.”
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