From Anambra, CEOAFRICA.com gathered that Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has sealed not less than 20 shops at the Building Materials International Market, Ogidi, and Bridgehead area, in Onitsha.

According to the Coordinator of SON in the State, Albert Wilberforce, the shops were dealing in zinc and aluminium roofing sheets that fell short of international standards.

“Some goods in all the shops we have locked up fell below the standards we are enforcing,” he said.

Wilberforce said that a lot of other products were fake versions of originals that had been certified by SON. He added that the sub-standard products will be confiscated and destroyed, while those arrested for faking and adulterating products.

 “The people that we have caught with these products are the people who will tell us who their manufacturers and importers are,” Mr. Wilberforce said.

He warned the shop owners and market leaders against tampering with shops that had been sealed.

Some of the traders expressed surprise that SON had come raiding their shops only a day after they held a “friendship meeting” with the director-general.

It will be recalled that few days ago,  the Director-General of SON, Joseph Odumodu, held an interactive session with building materials, electrical, electronics and tyre traders in the markets.