The Nigeria Customs
Service says it is ready to partner with the Standard Organisation of Nigeria
(SON) to curb the influx of substandard goods.
The Comptroller General
of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ibrahim (rtd), told Channels
Television on Saturday that the collaboration would enable the agencies achieve
the Federal Government’s mandate of reducing to a bearable minimum the
increasing inflow of such goods.
“We are here today to
establish that synergy and agree that henceforth we will be working
hand-in-hand to improve the system,” Col. Ibrahim said during a meeting with
representatives of SON.
The Director General of
SON, Joseph Odumodu, requested that the organisation should be allowed to be
part of the imported goods’ extermination process to ensure proper check of
goods.
“Sometimes containers
may come with a paper that says it is ‘A’ but what is inside may be ‘B’. We do
not need to see everything, but there are some products that we call life
endangering products, like bulbs, electronics, tyres, children’s toys and
others and we will like to have a good look at these products,” Mr Odumodu
said.
He stressed that
although the supervision may not require a 100 per cent involvement of SON, but
a proper extermination will ensure that substandard goods do not come into
Nigeria.
According to
statistics, over 60 per cent of goods imported into Nigeria are fake and this
has become an area of concern for the government.
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