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Why Nigerians Motorists Should Shun Tokunboh Tyres – SON

The Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) has advised Nigerian motorists to avoid buying imported used tyres, because they had already been used for more than four year, which is a lifespan of a tyre.

The director, Inspectorate and Compliance Directorate of SON, Obinna Manafa, made the appeal recently, following the organization’s seizure and destruction of over 6000 substandard tyres confiscated in Port Harcourt, Rivers state of Nigeria.

He warned that, because the tyres are expired, they can burst at high speed on major highways and deny the user, if he or she is still alive, the value for his or her money.

He said: “Before the tyres are imported in the country, they have stayed beyond four years already.“Worst, aside being expired from country of use,  the ‘tokunbo’ tyres are also forcefully stuffed inside each other, such that, at times, you might have six tyres stuffed together into one tyre.

“Any tyre stuffed with another has already lost its balance on ground and internal wire alignment of such tyre has been disarrayed also.”

He said it is to protect lives of motorists that SON seize and destroy the dangerous tyres, thereby preventing them from getting into the markets and homes.

Mr Manafa, therefore, advised Nigerians to look carefully at the expiry date of a tyre before buying as well as “alert SON officials if any new tyre looks suspicious.

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