The Federal Competitors and Shopper Safety Fee (FCCPC) on Wednesday sealed 5 textile warehouses in Kano for allegedly promoting underweight and shortened material supplies to customers.
The operation, led by the Fee’s Director of Surveillance and Investigation, Boladale Adeyinka, adopted weeks of surveillance throughout markets within the state.
In an announcement by its director of company affairs, Ondaje Ijagwu, the FCCPC stated it discovered that distributors had been supplying materials beneath the usual measurement indicated whereas charging full worth.
The transfer, the company stated, contravenes Sections 123(1) and 125(1) of the Federal Competitors and Shopper Safety Act (2018), which prohibit false, deceptive or misleading illustration concerning the amount or pricing of products.
Merchandise affected embrace LGR, U&Me, Nana Tex, V Levintus, Mama Africa, Hightex, UE, S-U Velt and Jisiki. The Fee additionally disclosed that the warehouses had been situated at a number of addresses in Gandun Abada Structure, Ibrahim Taiwo Street, Bua Rice Mills Avenue, Ajasa Inuwa Wada Street and Gandun Albasa New Structure in Kano.
FCCPC Chief Government Officer, Tunji Bello, stated the motion underscores the Fee’s zero-tolerance stance towards exploitation of customers and practices that undermine honest competitors.
“By undermining sincere merchants and companies that adjust to lawful requirements, this nefarious apply of promoting underweight merchandise can drive official retailers out of the market, thereby decreasing shopper alternative and entrenching anti-competitive behaviour,” he stated.
Bello added that the Fee would intensify enforcement to discourage comparable practices nationwide and urged retailers and distributors to offer items that meet declared specs.
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