By Charles Okonji
The Acting Regional Director, of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Lagos Region, Mrs Theresa Ojomo has stated that the Agency’s activities provides assurance for consumers to get value for their money.
Ojomo, who stated this during the road work of the Lagos Region of SON, in commemoration of the 2024 World Standards Day not that Walk for Standards was part of activities slated for the day.
According to her, world standards day is celebrated every October 14th, adding that the 2024 walk was to create awareness and to sensitize the general populace on standards and quality.
She said; “The theme of this year’s World Standards Day is “Our Shared Vision for a Better World.” So, we are looking at innovation, infrastructure, etc in this age of Atificial Intrlligence. Therefore, SON’s role in helping to achieve the ‘SDG 9’ is focused on infrastructure, innovation and bringing all the SMEs, the Nano organizations, MSMEs to ensure that they have infrastructure, by using our products, such as MANCAP and SONCAP.
“We broke it down to the very small and micro organizations, encouraging them to imbibe standards and operate, even in a unit activity.
“We have brought in schemes that are very low in economy because the MSMEs have always complained that it is expensive to have standards Conformity through the rigorous steps, such as application forms, test, quality assurance etc.”
The Acting Regional Director pointed out that SON only visit the Micro and Nanoes once in a year, explaining that that it is not cumbersome for them.
“We also want to see that the process of certification is not expensive for them, hence, we move them to the MANCAP scheme which the SON is assuring even as small as the unit is,” she averred.
She emphasized that the role of SON is to provided assurance for consumers to get value for their money through production certification and standardization.
“This is because we must conduct test, to make sure that every product meets the prerequisite requirements, which is the purpose of certification and that is why we give product identification,” the Acting Regional Director echoed.
