Lagos govt to ban sale of bottled drinks uncovered to solar

The Lagos State Authorities says plans are underway to ban the sale of plastic bottled drinks uncovered to daylight.

The Common Supervisor, Lagos State Client Safety Company (LASCOPA), Afolabi Solebo, made this identified in an interview with the Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday.

“Plastic bottled drinks uncovered to steady daylight are harmful to well being and really cancerous. Due to this fact, it will likely be a part of our public enlightenment between now and the top of the 12 months.

“In order that by 2023, we won’t solely confiscate such drinks however we’ll prosecute folks which are displaying these merchandise below daylight.

“We additionally need to have a stakeholders’ assembly with producers of these bottled drinks in order to get options for dummy of the merchandise for distributors to show.

“The essence of displaying these merchandise within the daylight is to draw customers to come back purchase. So in the event you can put dummies within the solar it has no impact since dummies appear to be the true factor,” Mr Solebo stated.

He stated consumables that kill bit-by-bit ought to be averted.

Mr Solebo additionally urged customers to all the time guarantee they get worth for his or her cash on all services rendered to them.

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He stated customers had a proper below the regulation to complain if they don’t seem to be getting worth and satisfaction for his or her cash, they might search redress.

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The final supervisor stated customers, a lot as they’d rights below the regulation, also needs to know that they’d tasks to decide on, to look properly at what they have been shopping for and procure receipts for each product purchased.

“So the customers do have tasks a lot as they’ve a proper to security, to learn, proper to readability and high quality of merchandise, the proper to decide on and the proper to be heard.

“Additionally, they’ve the proper to client training and particularly the proper to hunt redress in courtroom or in our workplace and once we can’t resolve the matter amicably, we resort to litigation.

He stated the company has been capable of get better over N25 million from the Ikeja Distribution Firm (IKEDC) as credit score adjustment granted to customers since he assumed workplace.

“As at September 2020, we recovered N28.46 million from the IkEDC via credit score adjustment for customers via the company and until date one other N7.02 million.

“We’ve additionally been capable of get better from on-line transactions, POS utilizing ATMs. We have been capable of get transaction reversals to the tune of N10.41 million.

”We have been capable of reclaim over 25,000 {dollars} from a complainant after mediation and deliberations as a result of he was flawed,” he stated.

(NAN)