Poor Product Quality: Nigeria Automotive Industry Awards To Withhold Recognition Of Automobile Battery Makers
LAGOS – The Automobiles And Road Safety Initiative, organisers of the Nigeria Annual Automotive Industry Awards has disclosed that no single automobile battery brand maker and dealership category will be recognised during the 2nd edition of its forthcoming Award Ceremony slated for Monday 27th November, 2023.
Mr. Samuel Oloyede Oriowo, the President of the Non-Governmental Organisatio, pointed out that there is undue influx of various low grade classifications of automobile batteries in the country.
According to him, it has been established that Nigeria loses above N150 billion to fake, low grade automobile batteries imported annually into Nigeria from various parts of the world.
The Board of Trustees of the Automobiles And Road Safety Initiative is calling on the Federal Government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to take positive actions and prioritize the production of automobile parts locally to save the country of seriously needed forex and stop boosting foreign economies at the expense of the home countrys.
“The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) charged with the duties of prior certification of goods being imported into the country; especially automobile spare parts, lubricants and allied products should double-up in their efforts at preventing low grade automobile batteries into the country as the low quality batteries could be harmful to motorists and commuters health; aside being economic drain pipes, the batteries’ life span are below 12 months instead of about 48 months and more as globally recommended.”
Oriowo added that the forthcoming 2nd Nigeria Annual Automotive Industry Award is to keep encouraging excellence and to celebrate the best and the brightest of the stakeholders, their products and services in the country.
He disclosed that any of the stakeholders with their brands/services in the Nigeria Automobile Sector that are not penciled down for proper recognition during the award ceremony should be critically examined by Nigerian automotive enthusiasts; no matter the caliber of the proprietors, stressing that the NGOs Technical/Selection Committee has been keen and thorough in its duties of technically examining worthy stakeholders, their products and services for the 2023 Awards.
The Award comes up at the Sheraton Hotel located in Ikeja area of Lagos, Nigeria, Oriowo said.
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