Odumodu added that the organisation had seized and destroyed more than N10 billion worth of counterfeit products and had enforced compliance to international best practice.
Dr Joseph Odumodu, former Director General, Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), said substandard products in the country had reduced from 85 per cent to 30 per cent in five years.
Odumodu,
who was appointed director-general of SON in 2011, said this in Abuja
when he handed over the mantle of leadership of the organisation to a
new acting director general.
He said the organisation got international accreditation for Food Technology Laboratories at Lekki in Lagos during his tenure.
Odumodu
added that SON’s Food and Technology Laboratories could now help to
reduce the rejection of the nation’s products, especially agro-allied
commodities at the global export market.
According to him, the organisation has attracted more investments by sanitising the cables sub sector, which hitherto caused high rate inferno in buildings.
He said ``all over the world, we know that Nigeria's cable is the best.''
Odumodu added that the organisation had seized and destroyed more than N10 billion worth of counterfeit products and had enforced compliance to international best practice.
He
noted that ``chasing containers, raiding warehouses and companies to
look for substandard products expose us to dangers and threats to
personal safety and property but we continued to do that in order to
maintain standard.''
He, therefore, advised the
Federal Government to address the market glut in the steel sector by
making Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to patronise
locally-produced iron bars which were now of high quality.
He
also advised staff of the organisation to be committed toward enforcing
standard in goods and services, stressing that ``we have developed a
process that will ultimately lead to certification of all government
agencies and processes.
"This process will
ensure that government processes become sustainable and predictable in
terms of cost, timing of service delivery and consumer-focus.''
The
former director general, who advised the organisation to focus on
working with the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in order to certify
their products, also urged the Federal Government to return SON to the
ports, saying SON was in a better position to verify imports into the
country.
In his speech, Mr Paul Angya, the new
acting Director-General, who is the Director of Corporate Services of
SON, said Odumodu had given them a roadmap to follow.
Angya
said that the staff of the organisation would ensure that they continue
with what the former director general started and preserve his
achievements.
"We both have public and private
orientation because the former director general came from the private
sector and we learnt a lot from him,’’ he added.
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