SON Confiscates Fake Electric Cables Worth over N30m in Ekiti

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria confiscated fake electrical cables and wires worth N30.5m during the raid of some major markets on Tuesday in Ekiti State.

The SON said it carried out the raid after an intelligence report revealed that some market vendors were dealing in substandard cables.

The SON, through a task force, sealed off some of the shops after it seized contingents of the substandard items.

The SON Inspectorate and Compliance Department director, Pius Manji, represented by Engineer Joel Aboyeji, said the raid was carried out to sanitise the markets of substandard cables and wires and prevent them from going into circulation.

Aboyeji stated that the importer cloned popular brands to deceive the public and decried how such acts affected local manufacturers and investments in the sector and were dangerous to households as substandard products could be flammable.

He added that SON would confiscate the cables and wires and prosecute electrical dealers who flood the markets with substandard products.

SON’s Director General of SON, Farouk Salim, last year, attributed most cases of fire outbreaks in Nigeria to imported electrical cables.