The Federal Government will state its position on the Volkswagen (VW) emission scandal this week, Dr Joseph Odumodu, the Director General, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), has said.

Odumodu, in an SMS to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the relevant government agencies were “working out something.’’

NAN had asked the SON’s helmsman why the Federal Government was silent on the matter and whether the country was not at risk.

He said: “We are at risk and we are working out something, but it involves more than one agency.

“Next week you will be notified of our position, but currently, the standard emission in Nigeria is at the very basic level.

“While Nigeria is at level 2, Europe for example is at level 6,’’ Odumodu told NAN.

NAN recalls that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had discovered that some Volkswagen diesel engine cars on sale in that country had devices that could cheat emission tests.

The EPA’s findings cover 482,000 cars in the U.S. , including VW brands, such as Audi A3, Jetta, Beetle, Golf and Passat.

The German car giant had owned up to the malpractice, admitting that about 11 million of its cars worldwide were fitted with the technology, dubbed “defeat device’’.

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