The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has initiated an alliance with some relevant government agencies to eliminate hazardous products in Nigerian markets.
The NESREA Director-General, Dr Ngeri Benebo, said last week in Abuja that the alliance would address basic needs and ensure better quality of life for Nigerians.
The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has initiated an alliance with some relevant government agencies to eliminate hazardous products in Nigerian markets.
The NESREA Director-General, Dr Ngeri Benebo, said last week in Abuja that the alliance would address basic needs and ensure better quality of life for Nigerians.
She identified the collaborating agencies on sustainable consumption and production in Nigeria as the National Automotive Council (NAC), Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Consumer Protection Council (CPC), Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN) and the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS).
Benebo said the alliance would further control illegal importation and trans-boundary movement of substandard products and hazardous substances.
She said that the main purpose of the alliance was to build strategic partnerships among relevant agencies of the Federal Government.
“The main purpose of the alliance we are initiating today is to develop and build strategic partnership among relevant agencies of the government.
“The alliance is also to create effective synergy in promoting sustainable consumption and production in the key sectors of our economy, thereby ensuring the protection of our environment and human health,’’ she said.
Benebo criticised the increasing rate of importation of hazardous wastes and substandard products in the Nigerian market.
“The increasing rate of obsolete and short functional life span of many products being introduced into the Nigerian market and the unpleasant incidents associated with them have raised issues of great concern,’’ she said.
In her remark, Mrs Dupe Atoki, the CPC Director-General, said protection of consumers was a big challenge, especially where cabals controlled the consumer market.
Atoki said the alliance, if well managed, would enable her agency to effectively fight the cabals, noting that one agency alone would not succeed in the fight.
Also speaking, Mr Thom Sambo, who represented the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, commended NESREA for the initiative.
He said that the service was tough on the importation of expired tyres, noting that it had seized many and destroyed them.
He called on importers of such expired tyres to desist from doing so, adding that Customs would continue to clamp down on them.
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