In a bid to ensure government agencies comply with standards, the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), has set up mechanism to regulate standards in all government agencies.
Director General, SON, Joseph Odumodu, stated this during state directors of the organization in Abuja.
He noted that it was not only in the private sector that standard is enforced, stressing that the whole idea behind SON is to standardise the nation.
Odumodu said there is a lot of indiscipline going on in the system, adding that without standard there cannot be a stable economy.
He vowed to rid every sector of the economy of substandard products by 2012.
“SON would ensure that the various government agencies achieve greater capacity utilisation and standardisation in all its ramifications. SON will make its mandate relevant across the globe such that its decisions would tally with international best practice.
“What we are trying to do now is to make sure that SON is effective in all the states of the federation. The other point we are emphasising is global relevance, we need to be accredited and link up with all the international standard bodies whatever decision we take in Nigeria will stand anywhere in the world.
“Our business is facilitative not punitive, we don’t want to go to any institution and say to them that we are closing them down. We want to work with institutions and ensure that their products are competitive. My desire is Nigeria gets quality for the product or service rendered.
“However SON discovered adulteration of fuel during supply chain, though SON is determined to uncover the point at which the fuel was adulterated.
“We are looking at the whole supply chain from the time the products arrive the tank farms to when they are transported to the depots and to the filling stations. What we have discovered in that sometimes the products come okay and it is adulterated along the line.
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SON subjects govt agencies to standard regularisation