The Standards Organisation of Nigeria is set to destroy N38m worth of substandard roofing sheets found in a Lagos warehouse.
This is coming after the agency confiscated N200m worth of substandard roofing sheets in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
The Director, Inspectorate and Compliance, SON, Obiora Manafa, quoted to have said during an enforcement exercise in Lagos on Monday, that the roofing sheets fell below the Nigerian Industrial Standards-180 for galvanised roofing sheets, which stipulated that the minimum thickness for roofing sheets should be 0.15mm.
The exercise was carried out by a joint special task force inaugurated by the Director General, SON, Osita Aboloma, tasked with eliminating substandard roofing sheets from the Nigerian markets.
It is disclosed that while some of the roofing sheets were manufactured locally, others were imported; adding that destroying them would protect the local industry because the smuggled substandard products caused local ones to be underpriced.
Manafa said the seized roofing sheets had no SON Conformity Assessment Programme certificate, reinforcing the belief that they were smuggled into the country.
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