SON Promises To Rid Nigeria Of Substandard Tyres

The Standards Organisation of
Nigeria (SON) yesterday promised to rid the country of substandard tyres.
The Director-General of the Organisation, Dr Joseph Odumodu, said this in his welcome address at a Tyre Training Programme organised for workers of SON in Abuja.
Odumodu, represented by Mr John Achukwu, Director Operations in SON, said that the organisation was determined to train its entire staff to wage war against substandard tyres.
“The era when only staff of the technical department were taught the parameters to identify standard is gone. “This training has become imperative to ensure all our workers are taught the basic rules and secret in distinguishing those elements between fake and quality tyres”, he said
“There are a lot of new tyres that lack the requisite quality in our market and therefore SON staff must be equipped to detect them”, he said.
The Managing Director of Infinity Tyres Ltd, Mr Asghar Palavkar, the facilitator, said that the training was aimed at teaching members of the regulatory body how to rid the market of fake tyres.
Palavkar said that the company was collaborating with SON in order to educate its members of staff on things to look out for when conducting quality test for tyres.
“Most of the tyres in the country are not worthy  of  road use because they were not manufactured according to the tropical region; a lot of them are snow adaptable tyres.
The Tide reports that the training attracted some senior officers of tyres dealers association in FCT.