A supermarket situated in Lagos State has been shut down by the state government for allegedly selling expired household products including toothpaste and others.
NIGERIACRIME gathered that the shopping mart, Chiffy Supermarket, located at No 3, Oduduwa Crescent, Ikeja GRA, was closed by officials of the Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency (LASCOPA) on Tuesday.
Disclosing this, the General Manager for LASCOPA, Afolabi Solebo, said the agency acted upon a tip-off from a consumer’s post on social media.
According to LASCOPA, officials of the agency saw many expired products on the shopping mart’s shelve which should have been disposed of by the owner.
Upon arrival at the supermarket, Solebo disclosed that the toothpaste and other products found in the store had no price tags and were all expired.
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The stated read, “The Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency (LASCOPA) today shut down Chiffy supermarket, located at No 3, Oduduwa Crescent, GRA, Ikeja, for selling expired toothpaste and other household products.
“The General Manager, LASCOPA, Afolabi Solebo Esq. had earlier on Sunday responded and acted swiftly by visiting the supermarket following a tip-off from a Consumers Facebook post alerting the Agency and the public on the sales of the expired products at Chiffy Supermarket in GRA Ikeja.”
He added that the dates found on them were discovered to have expired in August 2022, November 2022, as well as January 2023, and were sold to unsuspecting members of the public.
Solebo, who reiterated LASCOPA’s mandate of protecting the interest of consumers against expired, hazardous and substandard products, said that the supermarket would remain shut and placed under surveillance, while samples of the Products confiscated would be destroyed by the relevant Government Agency.
He said the action became necessary in order to rid the state of all forms of unscrupulous and unfair trade practices and to further ensure the safety of consumers from the dangers of expired products which may lead to death without people knowing the cause.
He further stressed that the era of cheating and short-changing consumers in Lagos was over.