The federal government, through the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, has sought the cooperation and stakeholders’ support on the move to review the Weights and Measures Act and related legislations.
At a South West stakeholders’ engagement in Lagos, the ministry noted that the engagement was necessitated by the need to actualise the implementation of the Nigeria National Quality Policy (NNQP) which was approved by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday, January 27, 2021.
It would be recalled that the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, in March, inaugurated a review committee.
He said the current act regulating legal metrology in Nigeria came into effect in 1962 and was amended in 1974.
The Director, Weights and Measures in the ministry, Comfort Emenbu, explained that, “It is envisaged that the implementation of the quality policy will bring about the improvement of the quality of products and services which are manufactured or provided in Nigeria.”
Emenbu, who was represented by an Assistant Director, Okechukwu Ejiofor, stated that the current global trends in weights and measures administration necessitated that certain aspects of the existing act were reviewed.
The Assistant Director, Training, Legal Metrology, Ogheneruemu Okerhe, said the ministry needed to engage stakeholders in order to get robust input on the current regulations being reviewed.
Source: dailytrust
