Ministry Urges Nigerians To Inbibe Quality Culture

The Minister of State
for Industry Trade and Investment, Dr Sam Ortom, has called on Nigerians to make standard their target.
The minister said this at Standard Organisation of Nigerias zonal stakeholders forum on Blocks and Allied product last week in Lagos.
Ortom, said the call was mainly for those in the building and construction industry.
He urged Nigerians to learn how to seek redress against any producer of sub-standard material, adding that they should make high quality their watch- word.
He stressed that all cements manufactured in the country must bear the standard as prescribed by SON.
He noted that SON must rise to the occasion and implement the policy of standards for all manufactured products in the country in a bid to get thing right.
Also speaking, the Director – General of SON, Dr Joseph Odumodu, recalled that Nigeria ranks among the nations with the highest rate of building collapse in the world.
He pointed out that his commission has concluded plans on how to addressed block moulders in a bid to check the situation. According to him, the agency may be forced to pull down some buildings that are proven to be faulty after carrying out its assessment on such property.
Odumodu, also hinted that SON will soon kick-start what he called certification of blocks in the country as a support to its target.
He was of the view that most building collapse in the country are as a result of poor quality and sub-standard blocks and other materials used in such construction.