The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCCPC, has sealed a warehouse in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, for distributing substandard products to consumers.
Leading a team of officers on the operation, the FCCPC director of surveillance and investigations, Boladale Adeyinka, said the raid was part of efforts to check the further circulation of substandard goods and products in the country.
Adeyinka stated the agency acted swiftly on intelligence reports that the activities of the warehouse flagrantly violated consumers’ safety and protection laws.
She added that the agency discovered obnoxious business practices that were contrary to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Act during the inspection of products in the warehouse.
While calling on Nigerians to support the agency by giving out intelligence reports on any harmful business practices, Adeyinka said FCCPC would track down manufacturers of the substandard products and hold them accountable.
She said: “The Commission received an intelligence tip regarding what is going on within this business premises and we did our surveillance activities to scope the intelligence. Upon reasonable suspicion that those activities going on here violate consumers’ safety, violate the provisions of the FCCPA Act particularly on the safety of consumers’ products that are being sold here.
“So, we decided to inspect the premises and to search the premises and confirm such obnoxious business practices that are contrary to the FCCPA Act here in Ado Ekiti.
“This business is a big warehouse, it has about four or five warehouses that stock consumer goods and products. In our findings, we discovered that the batch numbers on the waybill of the supply from the company and the product that were offloaded were not the same.”