Kano govt arrests Singer market traders for changing expiry dates on products

The Kano State Consumer Protection Council, KCPC, has arrested immoderate traders astatine Singer Market for allegedly changing the expiry dates of expired beverage products.

In a connection signed by its Director of Public Enlightenment, Jamilu Mustapha Yakasai, the assembly said the cognition was launched aft the Deputy Chairman of the Traders’ Association, Aminu Umar Dogara, alerted it to the alleged practice.

The council’s Director of Monitoring of Traders and Products, Auwalu Muhammad, said officials were instantly sent to the marketplace to investigate, starring to the apprehension of the traders and the closure of the affected shops.

He said the assembly remained committed to protecting consumers from expired products and goods whose labels, information oregon prime had been tampered with.

The Executive Secretary of the council, Dr Ibrahim Garba Muhammad, warned that the KCPC would not tolerate immoderate enactment that violates consumers’ rights.

He said those recovered blameworthy would look prosecution and due punishment nether the law.