The suspects, according to a statement, were paraded following their arrest, and the sealing of the warehouse where they had been cloning different sizes of tyres under different brand names.
The suspects, the statement added, churned out the substandard tyres into the Nigerian market under brand names such as Powertrac, Aptany, Harmony, Duraturn, Bearway, City Tour, Winda, Glory, Chachland, City Grand, Grandsonte and Sunny.
According to SON, the suspects brought the substandard tyres into Nigeria by stuffing them into one another.
“Sometimes as many as five tyres were stuffed into one and the tyres would have bent and ruptured in several places, thereby looking weak and slack.
“But the Chinese adorned the tyres with new labels and shinny linings to create the impression of being new and healthy,” SON said.
Some of the tyres found in the warehouse had post-dated manufacturing dates.
The agency’s Director General, Osita Aboloma, who conducted journalists round the warehouse, described the tyres as dead on arrival, saying allowing the sale of such tyres in the country amounted to “surreptitiously taking away the lives of millions of Nigerians.”
He observed that by stuffing the tyres into one another and conveying them through the sea from China to Lagos, the quality of the tyres had already been compromised.
Aboloma also noted that the crude way the tyres were separated on arrival in Nigeria and the poor storage facility, without sufficient aeration, in the warehouse had further compromised their quality.
“The SON Directorate of Compliance intercepted one of their trucks on the highway, tracked it and then this.
“You can see the amount of danger that these people are posing to our people and our economy just because they want to make huge profit at the expense of the lives of Nigerians.
“It is a clear case of investing millions in illicit business in order to take away the lives of millions of Nigerians, to destroy the lives of millions of Nigerians. If we allow something like this, it will amount to killing Nigerians,” Aboloma said.
The DG said there would be no hiding place for people who dealt in adulterated products.
Good one SON. Thank God they were discovered on time. A lot of lives have been saved as a result of these
ReplyDeleteChinco and fake products
ReplyDeleteChinko people want to kill us oo
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the cause of accident on the road, thank God they were caught.
ReplyDeleteThey should be jailed
ReplyDeleteAdulterated products should not be allowed anymore in Nigeria for it has claimed so many lives. This crazy foreigners should be dealt with.
ReplyDeleteThank God they were caught, they should deal with them mercileaaly.
ReplyDeleteYes there are many Chinese fake tyres every where
ReplyDeleteThese substandard tyres can lead to accident therefore it should be burnt and those chin Chan should be punished.
ReplyDeleteNigeria na dumping ground now
ReplyDeleteIt's good as SON sealed up their warehouse
ReplyDeletehmmmmmm, nawaooo
ReplyDeletewelldone SON..if these where not intercepted this how they will cause the lives of many innocent nigerians to end just like that..something they cant do in there country
ReplyDeleteThose tyres should be destroy and those that import it should be sentence
ReplyDeleteThey should be jailed and treated as they do to our own nationals in their country....
ReplyDeleteputting d life of ur fellow human in danger,all in d name of making money
ReplyDeleteIf it there country is a capital punishment
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate what SON are doing to sanitize our markets of fake and substandard products
ReplyDeleteThey see Nigeria as dumping ground
ReplyDeleteWe brought ds on ourselves! We give ds people 2 much liberty..
ReplyDeleteChinchang and their fake things
ReplyDeleteGood move by the SON on the motive of making things right in this country.
ReplyDeleteThank God for exposing dem
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they were contracted by Nigerians.
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