All plans are on deck by Federal Government to tackle and mitigate the constant rejection of Nigeria’s export products in the international market which has become an emergency.
Chairman and Chief Executive of theNational Quality Council ( NQC), Osita Aboloma who stated this in Abuja explained that the Federal Government through the establishment of the National Quality Council (NQC) has put in place measures to promote enhanced development, harmonization and rationalization of Nigeria’s Quality Infrastructure.
Chairman and Chief Executive of the NQC, Osita Aboloma who stated this in Abuja, posited that the various legs of the quality infrastructure, namely standards development, metrology, conformity assessment and accreditation require urgent harmonization and rationalization.
In a press release issued by the
Chief of Staff to Chairman/CE,Bola R. Fashina these, he said would ensure cost effectiveness and efficiency in support of the acceptance of Nigeria’s export products around the world.
Responding to questions on the recent assertion by the Director General, NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye that 70percent of Nigeria’s food exports are rejected in Europe and America, Aboloma corroborated the statement, stating that sanitary and phytosanitary requirements are some of the key issues to be surmounted to avoid the constant rejects.
The SPS requirements according to him, are quarantine and biosecurity measures applied to protect human, animal and plant life or health risks arising from the introduction, establishment and spread of pests, diseases as well as from the use of additives, toxins and contaminants in food and feed.
Aboloma alluded to a recent Vanguard Newspaper report of Nigerians shipping goods to Ghana for certification to enhance export value as being unacceptable, stressing that the solution lies in accelerated development, rationalization and harmonization of the Nation’s quality infrastructure for optimum value addition.
He stressed the need for greater synergy amongst organizations and institutions in the public and private sectors, hosting the National Quality Infrastructure as well as greater awareness creation for operators along the export value chain.
