By Olawale Gabriel LAGOS—

With clothes on lines in the balconies of some flats in the four-storey building located in the densely-populated area of Kirikiri Town, Lagos, no one would have suspected that the eight flats are not occupied by human beings, but are warehouses for expired products, which are repackaged as new.

The discovery by officials of the Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, weekend, after a tip-off by members of the public, was shocking as all sorts of cosmetics and household consumables were found in the flats, which had expired many years ago.

Conducting journalists round the building yesterday, SON Director of Monitoring & Compliance, Engr. Bede Obayi, said: “We acted on the intelligence we received from well-meaning Nigerians. You can see the volume of expired products here and imagine the implication for our society in terms of health issues.

“When somebody buys expired cream, what does it show? You are applying cream that the active ingredient has gone and that may cause reactions on the skin.

“More importantly, you are dealing with products that children use. Look at baby diapers that expired in 2015. Imagine what a product that expired in 2015 will do to a baby if used in 2017.” Obayi confirmed that most of the products are popular brands imported into the country, adding “perhaps they went overseas to buy these products that are close to their expiry dates and shipped them down here, because they have ready markets where people can buy.

This four-storey building of eight flats with the toilets, bathrooms and all available spaces filled with expired products. That tells you the enormity of the crime this person is committing. “Look at this wrapper for disinfectant. What they do is to pick the expired ones and use this wrapper with new expiry dates to wrap it.

When you have the old products inside this wrap that carries 2018 as expiry date, you will not know you are buying cloned products. The products have lost their active ingredients and efficacy.” Importer’s alibi On the claim by the importer that he was waiting to destroy the products, Obayi said he should have removed the expired ones and contacted the relevant agencies of government to destroy the products in line with international best practices.

According to him, “but what we have seen here is a dubious warehouse or hideout where people are churning out expired products for the markets.” Obayi said most of the products would have entered the markets as the importer supplies major supermarkets in the state. He added that SON is going to seal up the whole building to carry out further investigations and use the process to recall those already sold out. He said: “We have our offices throughout the nation and are going to escalate the recall process immediately, where we will get all the details of their transaction, so that anywhere these products are, we will pick them with the cost to the importer.

SON cannot accept this and those who are out to kill Nigerians. We will not allow them to be selling things like this, killing people in the name of merchandising. “We don’t want to continue to see people with illnesses caused by people who are out to kill by changing expiry dates.” He promised that at the end of investigation the importer will be persecuted by SON.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/son-discovers-8-flats-expired-products-repacked-sale/

Nigerians are the problem of Nigeria

Even if you nuke the whole Nigeria today I don't think the corruption here will stop.

Arrest them.


I once heard that a woman bought milk for her baby,fed the child and he died.Turned out the milk was an expired one that had been repackaged.

Those dolts need to be jailed for life.

BeeBeeOoh:
Even if you nuke the whole Nigeria today I don't think the corruption here will stop.

But it will reduce significantly, so y not call north Korea for some nukes.

Anything can happen in Nigeria but I am patiently waiting for those behind this...The owner of the house should be arrested.

BeeBeeOoh:
Even if you nuke the whole Nigeria today I don't think the corruption here will stop.

If you want to kill corruption in Nigeria, kill all Nigerians both home and abroad first.

Moreoffaith:
Anything can happen in Nigeria but I am patiently waiting for those behind this...The owner of the house should be arrested.

Why will you arrest the landlord, does he know what they are doing there.

In Nigeria we have extended family, crime, and extended corruption that runs through many of us unknowingly. Someone is working there collect salary on these while, he/she does not sees anything wrong in what the company is offering the public.....Toor!

Moreoffaith:
Anything can happen in Nigeria but I am patiently waiting for those behind this...The owner of the house should be arrested.

For what crime?

ogologoamu:


Why will you arrest the landlord, does he know what they are doing there.

If they arrest the landlord he will definitely provide whoever he rent out the building to, many Nigerians are suffering due to this act they are carrying out in the building my brother.

Jabioro:
For what crime?

You don't just rent out your apartment to people anyhow without knowing them and asking what business they want to run in there...what if they slaughter human in that house??

ogologoamu:


If you want to kill corruption in Nigeria, kill all Nigerians both home and abroad first.

Na who go cum be Nigerian nah??

yomi007k:




But it will reduce significantly, so y not call north Korea for some nukes.

Na to reason Baba make he try branch to North Korea in his next travel

The importer's name is Joseph Udeh. Na dem dem. These people will not kill us in this country.

http://punchng.com/son-discovers-twin-four-storey-building-filled-with-expired-products/

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria has caught a cosmetics and wine importer suspected of changing the expiry dates on products and putting new dates on them to mislead buyers.

The importer, Mr. Joseph Udeh, owner of Jouf Nigeria Limited, Kirikiri Road, Apapa, Lagos, is said to be a major dealer in popular cosmetics and home products.

When our correspondent visited his residence with the enforcement team from the SON, she observed that the importer converted two four-storey residential buildings, each containing eight rooms, into storage facilities for products.

Popular cosmetics and home product brands such as Omo, Ariel, Huggies baby diapers, Milton sterilising liquid for babies, Sunlight washing powder, Pampers diapers, various brands of sanitary wares for women, nail polish remover, Rescue Oil, Olay cream, Enliven conditioner, Foramen cream, Pullup potty training pants for children, various popular deodorant sprays including Axe, Cham, Sure, Irish Spring lotion, cosmetic facial wipes for women, as well as assorted wines.

The products were stored in cartons and loose pieces in more than 40 rooms, including the sitting room, kitchens, toilets, bathrooms and under the staircases.

His family, however, occupied the third floor of the second building, while the rest of the floors were also used as storage spaces for products.

A closer look at some of the cosmetics revealed varying expiry dates, some dating as far back as 2004, while some had expired in 2013 and some in 2016.

Udeh, whose shop is located at Balogun Market, Trade Fair Complex, told our correspondent that he was a supplier to some of the major departmental stores in Nigeria.

Justifying the presence of so many expiry goods in his ‘warehouse,’ he said he had made several calls to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, seeking to destroy the goods, but the agency had been slow in responding.

“We invite NAFDAC every year to come and destroy the expired goods, but they do not come as often as we need them to and sometimes when they come, they would insist on destroying only a limited number, two truckloads of goods, maybe,” he said.

But the agency denied knowledge of Udeh and his summons.

Speaking in response to a phone inquiry by our correspondent, the Public Relations Officer of NAFDAC, Mrs. Christy Obiazikwor, said the man was using NAFDAC as an excuse.

“What he is saying is not even logical. If he invited NAFDAC to destroy the products, why is he then changing the labeling on them?” she wondered.

Addressing journalists shortly after the operation, the Head, Inspectorate and Compliance, SON, Mr. Bede Obayi, who represented the Director-General, SON, Mr. Osita Aboloma, said the importer would face the full wrath of the law.

Aboloma said, “The volume of the goods that expired is inestimable. They are worth millions of naira.

“We are going to carry out further investigation and process of recall to those people that they have supplied, the status of the products and the expiry dates.

“We have our offices throughout the nation and we are going to escalate the recall process immediately when we get all the details of their transactions.

“Anywhere we find these products in circulation, SON must get there to pick them at the cost of this importer. SON can no longer tolerate this nefarious act and people who are out to kill Nigerians in the name of merchandise.

“This is not acceptable to SON and we cannot take this.”

Aboloma lamented the implication of the expired goods for babies and others who may eventually buy and use them.

“Imagine a product that should be used in wrapping up a baby in 2017 has expired in 2015; what will be the effect on the baby? Of course, it would be negative reaction on the baby,” he said.

“We have baby powder that had expired since 2013 and four years after, the products are still going into the market.

“When they sell, they remove the expiry dates and put new dates to deceive the unsuspecting consumers and when you buy these products, you think they are products that can help you, not knowing that they are products that would cause you all sorts of diseases.”

According to the SON official, many innocent people suffer without knowing the root causes of their illnesses, maintaining that importers of these expired products are killing and robbing innocent Nigerians ‎of their hard-earned money.

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Moreoffaith:


You don't just rent out your apartment to people anyhow without knowing them and asking what business they want to run in there...what if they slaughter human in that house??

Well what about if he is late?

Jabioro:
Well what about if he is late?

Somebody must have taken over the building after his death my brother.

Joseph Udeh why do you want to destroy lives of your fellow countrymen with expired and fake products, why?

Moreoffaith:


Somebody must have taken over the building after his death my brother.

Moment the tenant has been arrested.. no qualms to look for the landlord

Jabioro:
Moment the tenant has been arrested.. no qualms to look for the landlord

Sure

Why do these people like making money at the expense of Other people's health.

And later you will be calling yourselves umu chineke