The fake and
substandard products destroyed and burn by the agency included, tyres,
expired cereals, packaged snacks, detergents, soaps, bottled wines, soft
drinks, fruit juices, electrical and electronic appliances such as
television sets and cables as well as substandard LPG Cylinders.
Speaking while
supervising the exercise in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, at the
weekend, the SON coordinator in the state, Mr. Ayeni Oyebola said the
destroyed products were seized from their distributors and sellers in
different parts of the state after failing quality assurance test
carried out on them.
He disclosed that
no less than 100 shops had earlier been raided by the staff of the
agency in conjunction with security agencies at various times and
different locations across the state following tip-offs by patriotic
members of the public and sustained surveillances of staff.
Oyebola decried
that most of the seized items had fake company name, fake brand name,
fake country of origin and imaginary expiry date embossed on them at the
expense of consumers' safety.
He said apart from
blacklisting the distributors of such items, the agency was also on the
trail of the real manufacturers and their other collaborators, as they
would be made to face the full weight of the law, in addition to paying
penalties ranging between N500,000 and N3 million, depending on the
volume of their committal, including cost of destruction as well as risk
arrest and prosecution.
The SON boss, who
described the burnt items as "life threatening products", said most of
them had either expired since over three years ago, or are entirely
fake, while they were fraudulently labeled as being newly made and kept
on the various supermarket shelves for unsuspecting residents to buy for
their family consumption.
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