SON to declare war against producers of substandard products ―DG

The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) in Benue State has stated that the organization would henceforth declare war against producers of substandard products without SON’s certification.

Director General of SON,  Barr. Osita Anthony Aboloma who was represented by State Coordinator, Mr Samson Makolo dropped this during the presentation of  SON Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme (MANCAP) certification to SOCEPV Standard Poles Limited and RANTITO Dairies both in Makurdi, the Benue State capital on Tuesday.

Ablooma who commended  the two private organizations said that their products passed the monitoring process and conformed to Nigerian Industrial Standards.

At Rantito Dairies Limited, SON said that the company has established state of arts machineries and quality assurance facilities that guarantees total quality on table water and yoghourt products

At SOCEPV standard poles, the SON DG said  that the organization would soon partner with Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offences Related Commission, ICPC to begin clamp down on counterfeit products in the market.

He said SOCEPV Standard Poles Limited Makurdi has met all the requirements needed for the award of  MANCAP (NIS) Certificate having been subjected to thorough dynamo metric tests in SON Laboratory Enugu and other independent laboratories in Nigeria, where the results therefrom showed that the product conformed to NIS 586/2007 and other international standards.

Aboloma stated that the decision to involve ICPC was to prevent dumping of unsafe and counterfeited products in the markets and also promote consumer confidence and global competitiveness of Nigerian goods and services.

He also appealed to the Nigeria Independent Power Project (NIPP) and governments at all levels to patronise only concrete poles certified by SON so as to sanitise the power sector.

According to him, the power sector had recorded lots of deaths in recent times in a bid to erecting poles to distribute electricity to the public and so many other power facilities destroyed due to use of low quality standard of  manufactured poles,saying there is need for other regulators and engineering bodies in the building and power distribution sector to always insist on using certified products.

According to the director general, ‘having gone through rigorous test requirements by SON Engineers, the Governing Council of SON deemed it fit and thereby awarded this prestigious MANCAP Certificate (first in Benue state) to SOCEPV Standard Poles limited. This certificate of MANCAP is for your; (a) Concrete Electric Pole(High Tension), (b) Concrete Electric Pole(Low Tension) respectively subject to renewable after three years”. Aboloma stated.

And to RANTITO Dairies, he said; “the company, having gone through rigorous test requirements in SON Laboratory and inspection, the governing Council of SON deemed it fit and thereby rev alidade the NIS certificates already won by the company. This award of MANCAP Certificate is for your Woodland Bottled Water, Tito Furaghourt and Tito Yoghourt Plus.”

Receiving the certificate, the Managing directors and chief executive officers, SOCEPV Standard Pole Ltd and Rantito group of company;  Mrs. Fola Onadeji and Chief Isaac Akinkunmi respectively said the qualification and subsequent award of MANCAP certificate,  would help  immensely to strengtheningpo the organization to deliver quality standard of  concrete Poles  and standard water and yoghourt to their respective customers in the state.