The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has said that it spent about N20 million in destroying more than three million fake and sub-standard tyres nationwide.

The Director of Enforcement of SON, Mr Louis Njoku, who made the disclosure on Sunday in Abuja, also noted that about two million fake and sub-standard tyres were still in the organisation’s dump site.

Njoku said the organisation would not relent in its efforts to rid the country of fake and sub-standard goods, adding that ignorance of the law was not an excuse.

According to him, SON has carried out series of awareness and enlightenment campaigns to market associations and manufacturers on the dangers inherent in the consumption and use of sub-standard goods.

“Nigeria is a very peculiar place and it is very big and businessmen being what they are, they want to make profit and when they do that we are at the end there waiting for them.

“The manufacturing and importation of some sub-standard and fake goods like tyre are done ignorantly while some are done with intention but I want to tell you that ignorance of the law is not an excuse.

“And that is why we are making sure that wherever you are doing the wrong thing we will get to you. If you are importing and you think SON is out of the port, we are at the other end waiting for you,’’ Njoku said.