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75 containers of fake windscreens arrive Lagos
Babatunde Oke
Glass Manufacturers under the aegis of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has written a letter to the Standard Organisation of Nigeria alerting it of the importation of 75 containers containing substandard vehicle windscreens.
According to the letter dated July 7 and addressed to the Director-General of the SON, some people were planning to frustrate the efforts of the organisation and President Olusegun Obasanjo to rid the country of fake and substandard goods.
The association noted that the experiences in the past have shown that most of the windscreen, imported in the country and tested by SON were substandard.
�You are aware that members of your staff have over the past months, sampled and tested windscreens taken from containers in the ports. You will have seen from the results that over 99 per cent of the windscreens tested have failed either the test or have not complied with the Nigerian standard approved for laminated windscreens or both,� it stated.
It said that the association had alerted the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Manufacturing and the Private Sector, Alhaji Abdulkadir Ahmed on the development and that he had, in turn, informed the Assistant Comptroller General of Customs on Enforcement and Drugs to ensure that the importation was investigated.
The association said that SON had arranged samples of the imported windscreens for testing, adding that the products, if released into the Nigerian market, would lead to the closure of the only two automotive glass manufacturing companies, TSG Nigeria Limited and Isoglass Nigeria Limited, in the country.
Speaking on the effects of the importation, the President of the National Union of Chemical, Footwear, Rubber, Leather and Non-Metallic Products, Mr. Moses Gbadebo, said workers of the two automotive glass manufacturers would be thrown into the labour market, which had already swollen.
�The effect will be great as there will be job losses and this will lead to increase poverty in the country,� he said.
He, therefore, urged the government, especially the Comptroller-General and men and officers of the Nigeria Custom Service, to enforce the law guiding the importation of windscreens, while the SON should not allow glass that did not meet Nigerian standards into the country.
He also called on the Customs to enforce correct payment of duties on any imported windscreen and �not to accept fraudulent, sometimes fake or undervalued certified invoices.�
The PUNCH, Friday, July 16, 2004
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