The Kano State Consumer Protection Council has revealed that over the past three months, it has seized fraudulent, contaminated, and subpar goods worth over N100 million.
Baffa Babba Dan’agundi, the council’s interim managing director, announced this on Thursday.
The council had already started the legal procedures that would end with the merchandise being destroyed, according to the interim managing director.
He mentioned adulterated fertilizers, flour, palm oil, rice, spaghetti, milk, and semolina as some of the products that had been seized.
InsightnaijaTV reports that the council previously reported finding a significant amount of contaminated fertilizer at two places in the state and seizing a trailer-load of dated semolina at the well-known Singer Market in Kano City.
Eleven people were also detained, he continued.
However, he bemoaned the fact that the punishment specified in the law creating the council was not severe enough to provide deterrent and urged its reconsideration.
In a related development, Dan’agundi, who also serves as the managing director of the Kano Road Transport Agency (KAROTA), claimed that the state’s 10 p.m. ban on commercial tricycles was working as intended.
Since the ban went into place, he claimed, there has been a sharp decline in criminal activity in the state and no tricycle-related crimes have been reported.
