SON urges contractors to go for standard steel to minimise building collapse

Standard Organisation of Nigerian (SON) Kogi State chapter has embarked on market surveillance to avert contractors using re-enforce steels that could cause building collapse in the country.

Okechukwu Anne, Acting State Head, Kogi State office, who spoke to journalists in Lokoja disclosed that her office received alert from the Department of State Security (DSS) Ilorin that they noticed some substandard re-enforced steel in the market, adding that because of this the SON dim it fit that it should go into the market  to investigate and confiscate materials where necessary before they can get to their final   consumers.

“This is not actually a raid, but market surveillance which is on a different product, re-enforced steel rod.  He said: “Some test must be carried out.  We are just going to do the physical test. We have to sample some products by sending them to our Enugu Laboratory ”.

Anne Okechukwu advised contractors to go for standard steel so that building collapse will reduce to minimal.

He disclosed that all the steel companies have a code that SON  them for the purpose of re-enforced  steel, adding that those code will help buyers to locate the companies .

Victoria Nnakiaike