Aba manufacturers set to get help from Standards Organisation of Nigeria
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Wednesday expressed its readiness to assist indigenous manufacturers on standards requirement for export.
The SON’s South-East Regional Coordinator, Mr David Obi, made the disclosure in an interview in Aba.
He said that the organisation was encountering hitches reaching individual industrialists, adding that it would step up effort to attend to their needs through their market associations.
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He called on the industrialists to avail themselves of the opportunity of getting SON assistance in order to avoid the carefree attitude which deprives them of good things.
“One thing is certain in this very area. The market is very vulnerable. When you go there, there is a way Aba people do their thing but that does not disturb us from visiting them.
“I told them that I was here in Aba and I advised some of these shoemakers against putting made in Italy labels on their products when they were actually producing them here in Aba.
“The action cedes the credit for the innovation and the goods they have produced to Italy.
“They do not even want to bring their work out so that the credit will come to them,” he said.
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Obi noted that although they might not reap the fruit of such local labeling effort immediately but would certainly get them when they have persevered and their work had gained recognition.
He said that SON had never relented in its effort to educate Nigerian producers through radio jingles on how to access help from the agency to their benefit.
Obi promised to do more than routine inspection in Aba to ensure that young industrialists accessed the guidance needed to make their products world class.
Source: NAN