Consumer Safety: Lagos shuts grocery store over expired, harmful products

*Afolabi Solebo, General Manager of Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency, warns grocery stores and supermarkets across the state to desist from sales of unwholesome products, or face the full wrath of the law

Isola Moses | ConsumerConnect

For purportedly selling expired products to unwary consumers, the Lagos State Government (LASG) has sealed off ‘Chimezie Store’, a popular grocery store, located at No. 19, Ogundana Street, Off Allen Avenue, Ikeja, the state capital.

ConsumerConnect learnt the officials of the Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency (LASCOPA), stormed the said grocery store and discovered the expired products in the process.

The market regulatory agency subsequently, shut  the store during a sting operation as part of the ongoing ‘zero tolerance’ on unwholesome items across the state.

It is recalled that LASCOPA recently the agency sealed two major supermarkets found displaying expired products on their shelves for sales, including Chiffy Supermarket, located in GRA Ikeja.

Following the discovery of the products, LASCOPA officials, immediately, sealed the store premises to halt further sales of the products to members of the public.

Afolabi Solebo, General Manager of LASCOPA, reportedly confirmed in a terse statement that during an inspection exercise carried out by the monitoring and enforcement team of the agency, the regulator uncovered the expired products and confiscated same from the store.

Solebo, therefore, warned grocery stores and supermarkets across the state to desist from sales of unwholesome products, or face the full wrath of the law, if caught.