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The Requirements Organisation of Nigeria confiscated faux electrical cables and wires price N30.5m throughout the raid of some main markets on Tuesday in Ekiti State.
The SON mentioned it carried out the raid after an intelligence report revealed that some market distributors had been dealing in substandard cables.
The SON, by a job power, sealed off among the outlets after it seized contingents of the substandard gadgets.
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The SON Inspectorate and Compliance Division director, Pius Manji, represented by Engineer Joel Aboyeji, mentioned the raid was carried out to sanitise the markets of substandard cables and wires and forestall them from going into circulation.
Aboyeji acknowledged that the importer cloned standard manufacturers to deceive the general public and decried how such acts affected native producers and investments within the sector and had been harmful to households as substandard merchandise might be flammable.
He added that SON would confiscate the cables and wires and prosecute electrical sellers who flood the markets with substandard merchandise.
SON’s Director Basic of SON, Farouk Salim, final yr, attributed most instances of fireside outbreaks in Nigeria to imported electrical cables.
