Besides, the standards body reaffirmed its zero-tolerance for substandard products, even as unscrupulous importers continue to indulge in illicit business despite the agency’s numerous sensistisation programmes on the negative impact of substandard products.
The Director General, SON, Osita Aboloma, represented by the Director, Inspectorate and Compliance, SON, Engineer Obiora Manafa, explained that these substandard electric cables with no economic value pose dangers to both lives and property.
He warned that the cables can do a lot of harm to the economy at large, adding that the cables were seized from importers who stock them in their warehouses.
He further revealed that they are currently destroying four truckloads of substandard electric cables, while the other ones they seized are undergoing court processes and will be ready for destruction anytime they get the court orders.
According to him, these cables failed the conductor and insulator resistance parameters and as such, they are unsafe for consumption.
Engineer Manafa added that it is their responsibility in SON to protect lives and property of Nigerians, as well as ensure that those goods do not enter the market, because there are critical parameters in the standards
He maintained that they are not happy destroying the goods, because it is a loss to the owner and the nation, but they that they have the mandate to protect the lives and property of Nigerians even if it is only one life of a Nigerian.
He reiterated that made-in-Nigeria cables are the best because they comply strictly to the requirements of the standard, and advised consumers to always look out for made-in-Nigeria cables with MANCAP logos while for imported products, look out for SON’s registration numbers.
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