Determined to deliver on its mandate to rid Nigerian markets of fake and sub-standard products, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has seized sub-standard auto spare-parts worth N20 million from Mundus Auto Limited at the popular Auto Parts and Mechanics Dealers Association (ASPAMDA) market at the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex along Mile 12-Badagry Expressway. The importer was also arrested.

Also confiscated were cartons of adulterated locally-made tooth brushes, allegedly imported from China.

The raid, according to SON, was part of its on-going ‘Operation Flush’ campaign aimed at eliminating sub-standard products from circulating in the country.

Briefing reporters after the exercise, leader of the Monitoring and Enforcement team, Assistant Director, Inspectorate and Compliance Department of the agency, Mr. Fred Akingbesote, expressed disgust at the rate importers throw caution to the wind in their bid to maximise profit. He disclosed that a similar raid, which took place earlier in the year, involved the same culprit whose shop was amongst those locked up for the same offence.

“If you recall that this type of exercise was carried out precisely on April 8. The same culprit refused to understand what we are saying. They continued in their nefarious activities by faking the product. This is an engine component spare part in a heavy-duty vehicle originally a product of Poland with a minimum life-span of two years, but this fake one from China can only last for about two months.

“Everything about the rotor looks exactly like the original. It takes an eagle-eye of a technically competent person to identify, but this person continues to bring it in from China, while the original is made in Poland,” he said.

Unperturbed by SON’s action in locking the shops, the importer, who had been on the run since the incident, together with members of his cartel obtained a court injunction against the agency and went ahead with normal business, not minding the fact that a day of reckoning always comes.

The SON top official said: “When these shops were locked in April they went to court and got an injunction which I’m not aware of; that notwithstanding, the pedestal at which SON works now is a different platform entirely because of our amended Act. In time past, we needed to obtain court order, but now Section 30; sub-section 4 gives us the same right, privilege and authority like any law enforcement agency, especially the Police. Now, we can arrest, prosecute and detain as the case may be. So, running around obtaining court injunctions based on the old Act is just a waste of time.”

The former SON Act empowers the Standards Council to design, establish and approve standards in respect of metrology, materials, commodities, structures, and processes for the certification of products in commerce and industry throughout Nigeria and to carry out any other function imposed on it under the former Act. It also empowers the Director-General to enforce standards, quality control of products, science of measurement, and all matters relating to metrology; investigate quality of products, etc, seize, seal, destroy or prohibit the sale of sub-standard products; power to enter any premises, building etc. where commercial activity is taking place to perform her functions, amongst others.

Following the unprecedented passing of the SON amended Act by the immediate seventh National Assembly, it has now acquired new powers not only to arrest, prosecute and jail purveyors of fake and sub-standard products across the country, but prevent importers of such products into the country from having the usual mentality of ‘business as usual’. With this upgraded status, the war against fake and sub-standard products would gain new impetus and bite.

Akingbesote stressed that the high rate of accidents on our roads is caused by the use of counterfeit imported auto spare parts by motorists, while decrying the unpatriotic attitude of some unscrupulous businessmen, who would stop at nothing to amass wealth at the detriment of others.

“These are fake metals, but look like the original. It has to be subjected to fatigue and mechanical tests to further check for the component and the characteristics of the metal. These are just fake; they look shiny, polished, but there’s actually nothing in them. Something that is for duration of two years minimum, you use it for a couple of months and it’s all over.”

“This is why we have high rate of damage on trucks on the road and accidents. It’s an engine component and anything can happen,” he said.

He expressed joy at the milestone reached with the ‘operation flush’ campaign and promised that the agency would stop at nothing to ensure that s
sub-standard products are removed from Nigeria’s markets, while warning dubious importers to desist from proliferating fake products because the long arm of SON would definitely catch up with them.



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OPCNAIRALAND:
To the rhesus comparing regions, Southeast is the least valued region anywhere in Nigeria.

Here is how to compare development in real economic terms. The Nigerian currency, Naira, is a common denominator and so holds value whether you are in Enugu or Ibadan. But we know, based on migration and investment numbers that Ibos are the ones migrating and investing in other regions because the quality of social living in these other regions is superior to that obtainable in Iboland. Therefore assuming we have individual and different currency based on the distinct economies of each region....so that Yorubaland has its own currency, lets call it Alare pound, Ibo has its own currency, lets call it Biafran pound, .....it will take a million Biafran pound to buy one Alare pound at exchange.

What this means is that an Ibo in Yorubaland is far much valuable than an Ibo in alaibo by a million. This is so because security, commodity market, social justice, liberty, entertainment....and everything else instituted in West by Yorubas is a million times better when scaled against same criterias in East. This explains the migration and also the mindset to accept being a lower class untitled citizens in Yorubaland than the privilege of pedigree status back home in Alaibo.

This is a true measure of class in Nigeria.

A lie may travel for a thousand miles, but it takes just one step of truth to catch up with it.

The voodoo analysis above can only exist in the phantasy world of ewedu eaters. It's no longer news that Yorubas thrive mainly on an atmosphere of lies, falsehood and propaganda.

If the abysmal thinking of the op that assembled the garbage above holds any water why are the Yorubas most vocal against Biafra

Yorubas have used every known tricks to attempt to quench the call for a separate state of Biafra. Many mischievous Yorubas have taken to the internet camouflaging as South-South people and South-East people, feigning undying fake love like never before and putting forth baseless theories why the idea of Biafra should not be allowed to fly.

Recall that in the heat of their numerous nightmares frustrated Yorubas have created numerous threads on Nairaland in their desperate attempts to stop Biafra agitation. Due to the resounding responses they received on such threads Yorubas had to quickly call for such threads to be deactivated! Fact#

If at all Yoruba economy is better than the Igbo economy why are it's people worse hit by the dwindling crude oil prices

If Yoruba economy was in any way superior to Igbo economy Ekiti State will not deem it wise to send its citizens to Aba in Abia State for vocational training, to equip them to be able to create wealth for themselves and improve the economy of the State just like Eastern region.

If Yoruba economy was superior to that of Igbos why is hunger ravaging its people to the extent that concerned individuals from other parts of Nigeria had to come to their rescue, donating cash and food to ensure that they survive the economic crunch occasioned by low crude oil revenue?

And through all this period there was no cause for alarm amongst the Igbos in Igboland. Not even in Abia State where the civil servants were being owed their salaries, courtesy of the State's strong informal sector unlike Osun State where the phantom internally generated revenue (IGR) was a lie of fabricated figures
to massage the egos of Yoruba Kingdom.

T.A Orji of Abia State was labelled as the worst governor in the last dispensation by Igbos on NL and even in the outside world. Nobody criticized TA Orji and his failure in Abia than Igbos. Yet mischievous Yorubas kept lying to themselves of the sterling performance of Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State who was as bad as T.A.

Yoruba media propagandists churned out statistics of how Osun State has blossomed to being able to do without the free handouts from federal government (courtesy of the crude oil wealth from another man's backyard) and yet before you could say JACK the State became comatose and bankrupt.

Of what good is the big size of Oyo State when Ebonyi State is more developed than it? For the myopic Yorubas with poor geography of a place they call their 'country' the smallest State in size in Igbo land is about 3 times the size of Lagos State.

Find below the desperate attempts in the past by mischievous Yoruba voodooists to portray Yoruba economy as good:

1. "I don't need federal allocation to pay workers" - Rauf Aregbesola (ThisDay Newspaper, Nov 28, 2011)

2. Osun's Monthly IGR Jumps from N300million to N1.6billion in 3 years. 

3. www.nairaland.com/2353607/osun-earned-n204-billion-four

4. www.nairaland.com/1439842/osun-state-gdp-higher-than

5. www.nairaland.com/1454198/ict-lifts-osuns-monthly-generated-revenue

6. www.nairaland.com/1311395/opon-imo-launched-osun-today
 
7. www.nairaland.com/1277864/osun-names-airport-after-abiola


Yorubas accuse Igbos of being too smart in business and therefore should not be trusted. The implication is that they unconsciously accept the Igbos as having superior IQ and business sense.

And when credible institutions publish the results of their studies showing Igbos as chart-toppers Yorubas begin to search for straws to hold onto to fault the research. You wonder why they become so rattled and agitated at such results.
Business is all about smartness and no dullard or book-theory person can do better in a business than a person with native intelligence. 

Mental superiority makes you want to find your own space. 
Mentally dull people hate radical changes and want to just keep doing the same thing.

There is a correlation between Igbo achievements and 21 billion dollars remittances back into Nigerian economy on yearly basis as evidenced by statistics from Western Union. A less backward or less enterprising group of treasury looters cannot achieve such feat.

The Igbo youths are born into a society where they always have to think fast else they will be like Yorubas who live on free handouts from Abuja. Igbos always try as much as possible to excel in their various pursuits in life. Little wonder you see many Igbos competing on the world-stage.

Without government connections and patronage, Wale Tinubu, Jimoh Ibrahim, Femi Otedola, Mike Adenuga etc. of Yoruba tribe will be nowhere today, and that's why every now and then you would hear them being linked with one financial crime or the other.

Nigeria economy assumed a downward trend when the Yorubas and their Northern co-travellers acquired all Nigerian companies by virtue of indigenization decree of 1972. But they could not manage the companies instead they ruined, defrauded, liquidated, bankrupted and destroyed all the companies - that was the mother of destruction of Nigerian economy! The swindlers indeed bastardized the Nigerian economy. 
And to divert attention from their ineptitude and crass looting of the treasury Yorubas would use illogical reasoning to attempt to bamboozle other people while pointing accusing fingers elsewhere!

After more than 40 years, despite the stolen wealth, the Yoruba land cannot be said to be transformed and be one of the enviest in the world. None of their cities could be likened to, say the least, Johannesburg!

Inspite of the tortuous journey the Igbo man passed/passes through to achieve success the criminal system in place and the Yoruba gang will not allow the Igbo man be. Yorubas are bitter and angry at the success of the Igbos, that they use any given opportunity at their disposal to remind Igbos that they are the ones who accommodated them and therefore they should abide by their dictates, whims and caprices, including being coerced to vote the candidate of the host's choice in election.

With all the disadvantages Igbos faced and still face after the 1967-70 they rose from grass to grace and Yorubas are not even ashamed to compare Igbos with treasury looters. 

There is no law on this earth that prohibits free movement of people and participation in government. It takes a man of courage to venture into an unknown terrain and conquer it. The Chinese are doing it. The British, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese etc. did it. If the great Roman Empire hadn't ventured no one would have known they were great. Today many American businesses are located offshores in China, Saudi Arabia, Tokyo, United Arab Emirate and they are still venturing out to conquer unknown terrains.

For you to be great you have to venture out of your comfort zone. This is the true character of the ever industrious and peace-loving Great Igbo Nation. As of today it would be an understatement to aver that Igbos control 50% of the economy of Lagos and its environs. You see, it pays to venture out instead of lazing around touting and disturbing the peace of the society.