The
Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has commenced compulsory product
certification in its offices across the nation. This is also as it has
called on manufacturers and importers of goods to ensure the importation
and production of quality goods in the country by subscribing to its
Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme (MANCAP).
SON said that
Nigerians deserved to get value for their hard earned money adding that
the MANCAP was put in place to ensure that all manufactured products
conformed to the relevant Nigerian Industrial Standards (NIS) prior to
sales in the markets or export.
Director- general of SON, Dr
Joseph Odumodu, made this disclosure weekend in Abuja at the flag-off of
“The Walk for Standards,” held to mark the 2014 World Standards Day.
The
DG, who was represented at the event by the director of operations in
the agency, Mr Nelson Adebiyi, said, “The certification to MANCAP will
also ensure that locally manufactured products are subjected to similar
conformity processes like the imported products undergo with SONCAP thus
creating a level playing field,”adding that the event would be
concluded with a national seminar for small and medium enterprises in
Lagos in collaboration with SMEDAN, National Association of Small and
Medium Enterprises(NASME).