Director General, Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON); Mr Joseph Odumodu, said on Monday that a quality assurance system that would stop adulteration of petroleum products would soon be in place.
Odumodu said this during a one-day stakeholders’ sensitisation workshop organised in collaboration with the Department of Petroleum Department (DPR) in Lagos.
He said that a database of all petrol selling outlets in the country would soon be compiled to constitute a referable system to check malpractice like adulteration of petrol by some marketers.
Director General, Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON); Mr Joseph Odumodu, said on Monday that a quality assurance system that would stop adulteration of petroleum products would soon be in place.
Odumodu said this during a one-day stakeholders’ sensitisation workshop organised in collaboration with the Department of Petroleum Department (DPR) in Lagos.
He said that a database of all petrol selling outlets in the country would soon be compiled to constitute a referable system to check malpractice like adulteration of petrol by some marketers.
“All petroleum product outlets shall be required to provide information for the listing and certification of their premises.
“This shall be done through an on-line process and via the banks.
“SON will visit these outlets to take sample of their products and carryout testing of which the result will be printed instantly from our mobile laboratories,” he said.
He said that any petroleum selling facility that failed to comply with these requirements within the prescribed time would be denied access to purchase and lift petroleum products from certified depots.
Odumodu said that adulteration of petroleum products was classified as an act of terrorism.
Similarly, Mr Osten Olorunisola, a Director in DPR, said that adulteration of petroleum products had affected the growth of the nation.
“One liter of adulterated petroleum product can cause a lot of disaster.
“Adulteration of petrol can affect the health status of the country,” he said
He said that the DPR and SON would set up a joint committee to checkmate the selling of adulterated petroleum products in the country.
“It is a war that we will not deter to win,’’ he said.
The DPR chief also disclosed that any outlet caught dispensing adulterated products will be penalised by making monetary payment which will measured and calculated by the level of adulteration.
He noted that adulteration of Petroleum products was the worst of all sharp practices in Nigeria adding that the trend has caused a lot of damages to machines that has further caused the closure of many manufacturing firms.
He stated that the development has had a far reaching effect on the nation's economy saying that the need to reverse the trend cannot be overemphasized.
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