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SON inaugurates clubs in schools to boost quality control campaign

By Iyabo Lawal
06 July 2017   |   4:11 am
As part of efforts to boost quality control campaign in the country, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has inaugurated standard clubs in primary and secondary schools in Osun state.

Representative of Ooni of Ife, Oba Kayode Omisore (back); Director, Management System Certification SON, Mrs Oluremi Ayeni; Commissioner for Education Science and Technology, Kolawole Omotunde Young; and Director of Operation, SON, Felix Nyado with some of the pupils during the inauguration of Standards’ Club in Osun schools.

As part of efforts to boost quality control campaign in the country, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has inaugurated standard clubs in primary and secondary schools in Osun state.

Speaking at the ceremony, Governor Rauf Aregbesola commended the organisation for its efforts, adding that the agency has created adequate public awareness on issues of standards and quality.

The governor noted that SON, by this initiative has exposed the average Nigerian to the benefits of adopting standards in everyday life.

Represented by the state commissioner for education, Mr Wasiu Omotunde-Young, the governor also thanked SON for the catch-them-young initiative, which would help to safeguard lives and property.

According to him, the event is aimed at exposing students to standards in every ramification, adding that such programmes could be a major turning point especially as it relates to career and awareness.

He explained that the programme was to attract the children and also charge the young generation on the possibility of developing standards for commodities, projects and services for industries in the country.

According to the governor, the inauguration of the club would inculcate quality assurance in the minds of the youths at tender age. He advised the students to channel their abundant energies rightly and be conscious of their role in safeguarding their own lives and those of others.

Director-General of the organisation Mr Osita Aboloma urged the youths to identify with the noble crusade of sensitizing Nigerians against the patronage of substandard products in view of the danger to lives and property as well as the negative implications for the economy.

Aboloma said the message of standardisation is one that every Nigerian, irrespective of age should embrace given its obvious advantages in job provision, value for money, promoting competitiveness and increased capacity utilization, among others.

He advised the students to imbibe the values of honesty and patriotism, and shun greed in their endeavours as the leaders of tomorrow.

He said, “Standards’ club in primary and secondary schools would create a great army that would propagate the gospel of standardisation; it will help to create awareness about zero tolerance for substandard products in no small way.”

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