Rising from an emergency general meeting in leading motor parts trading group in Africa, the Auto Spare Parts & Machinery Dealers Association, ASPAMDA, has passed a resolution to blacklist traders who sell adulterated engine oil and auto spare parts.
In fact, forfeiture of shops, buildings or plazas is top on the cards for offenders after a recent raid conducted by the Department of State Security, DSS, in the market where several fake engine oil brands were impounded and their owners arrested.
Speaking at an emergency meeting, the President of ASPAMDA, Hon. Ngozi Emechebe decried what he and all his Executive and BoT members passed through at the Office of the DSS following the raid on fake oil dealers in the market. Accordingly, the members in one accord resolved that anyone caught dealing on any form of adulteration including engine oil and other auto spare parts shall forfeit his shops and be exited from the association.
Emechebe stated: “We will enhance our security and surveillance team with training and modern technology to track offenders. We assure the public that ASPAMDA remains a centre for quality auto spare parts and is the largest in West and sub-Saharan Africa.”
“Aside taking over the shops of products adulterators, we shall hand them over to the Police for prosecution and further make sure they never come back to this market to do any kind of business in their life.
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ASPAMDA President and current chairman of the Board of Trustees, Chief Daniel Offorkansi decried the sudden return of adulterators in the market, saying “All hands must be on deck to stamp out enemies of the progress of ASPMDA which is globally known for dealing in high quality auto spare parts.
Former ASPMDA President, Chief Charles Age Okeke decried the incompetence of the Security and Surveillance Arm of ASPMDA leadership which is supposed to share strategic intelligence with the CSO who will then advise the President to act ahead of time to avoid such DSS embarrassment.
He said it was time to truly retrain and restructure the Security and Surveillance for a well secured ASPMDA, decrying that it has never been like this before now.
Chief Ike Ofoma in his contribution, made it clear that “If we want to tell ourselves the truth, we all know them very well. This time around, the leadership of ASPAMDA must do something different by placing a public announcement in the media distancing the market from any form of adulteration.
“Secondly, every landlord or Plaza or shop owner must do Know Your Tenant by forcing every tenant to sign an agreement assuring that he will only deal on genuine parts. That whenever he deviates and deals on fake products, he shall be removed from ASPAMDA and handed over to the law enforcement agencies” Ofoma advised.
While adjourning the emergency meeting, ASPAMDA President called several officials especially office owners at Block 7, 17, 18, 19 and 20 immediately.
He also hinted of planned numbering and enumeration of shops and plazas by the Management Board in concert with DSS as a way of strategic security system to stamp of fakery.
Reported by Vanguard
