The request of the House of Representatives that NAFDAC and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) be allowed back into the nation’s ports and borders after a nine-year absence is a welcome one.
The request of the House of Representatives that the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria be allowed back into the nation’s ports and borders after a nine-year absence is a welcome one.
Both agencies, along with the Agricultural Quarantine Services, were ordered out of the ports in October 2011 by the then Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The action had been taken in response to complaints that the profusion of agencies at the nation’s main entry points was hampering efficiency and promoting corruption and unethical practices.
NAFDAC’s brief of ensuring that all imported food products are wholesome and fit for human consumption is just as important as the NDLEA’s anti-illegal narcotics mandate. SON’s responsibility of ensuring the standardisation and quality of all industrial products cannot be less essential than the DSS’s overarching concerns with national security.
In March, the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents claimed that Nigeria loses an estimated N10 billion annually to the importation of fake and substandard goods. In April, SON announced that it had confiscated substandard products worth some N300 billion over the past few months.
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