festacman:
That's why the Erisco competitors from Asia are pushing the Chioma story in international media. They are getting back at him for forcing them do the right thing in 2015.

nlfpmod:

How wholesome is that tomato paste you are consuming?

Experts say it may be reddish in colour and ravishing but could lead to other diseases such as cancer. To this end, the global food safety concerns on processed fruits and vegetables, which tomatoes pastes belong took the centre stage in Lagos recently, during a Consultative Meeting with Importers of Tomato Paste in Retail Packs (Sachet/Tin) from China by Erisco Foods producers of RIC-GIKO tomato paste with support from the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC.

The concerns came as a result of a recent discovery that a group of Asians and their Nigerian collaborators have been killing Nigerians by selling starch and colouring in the name of Tomato paste.

According to the President of Erisco foods Limited, Chief Eric Umeiofia, reports from a NAFDAC survey revealed that such killer tomato paste with colouring are carcinogenic and therefore unfit for human consumption.

“Apart from the cancer-causing colouring, the starch contained in those products is clearly harmful to unsuspecting diabetic patients. This, the importers have been doing by luring unsuspecting Nigerians with banned synthetic colouring agents which are eye-catching and other substandard ingredients and with sell at cheap prices! However, it has been established that the more red your food is via substandard tomato paste, the more you endanger your life and that of your family,” he stated.

Umeiofia who explained that Ric-Giko shared their standard with tomato paste produced in the United State, South Africa and EU lamented the faking of some genuine tomato paste in the country. He said wholesome tomato paste such as RIC-GIKO should be a rich source of Lycopene, a photochemical with many possible health benefits and a natural pigment that gives many red fruits and vegetables their colour.

“It has been scientifically proven that Lycopene contains a potent antioxidant that stabilizes free radicals making them harmless and helping the body to dispose of them thereby reducing the risks of cancer and other Non-Communicable Diseases, NCDs.

However, the substandard tomato paste contain little or no Lycopene and secondly, the banned colouring used by importers of deadly tomato paste are most times impossible to dispose of from the body. The colourings therefore stick to veins, arteries and vital organs and accumulate to cause cancer, hypertension and other diseases.

In addition, the banned colouring agents have been proven to cause poor neurological development in children; causing hyperactivity, poor concentration and, hence, poor performance in education and progress in life.

He advised Nigerians to patronise only made-in-Nigeria Food product, adding that the Nigerian government should encourage indigenous local manufacturers, especially in the food sector as tomato paste.

Endorsing Ric-giko tomato paste, the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration, NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii stated that it has become imperative to conduct a study on the quality of tomato pastes imported from China to Nigeria.

Orhii said: “Tomato is one of the consumed fruits in the world, either as raw fruits or as processed products. In fact, available records revealed that globally, tomatoes are second only to potatoes in economic importance and consumption and are used in the food industry as raw material for the production of several products like juices, sauces, purse, pastes and canned tomatoes.”


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/how-tomato-paste-importers-are-killing-nigerians-erisco-foods/

FalseProphet1:
As a prophet, I'll organize deliverance sessions for the affected people. For a token of course. Tell them to come to my deliverance center and watch cancer and other diseases disappear from their body.

This I have seen.

texazzpete:


Eh. Still his loss. And still his legacy.
That’s all he will be remembered for now. 40 years in business and when you Google him up and all you’ll see is a bug eyed man making bellicose threats to a pregnant woman, with a criminal lawsuit that’s doomed to failure.

Rejouir:
it will not be his loss, i know what am saying. As it is now, Government doesn't even rate nigerians.

Most nigerians surviving are through the private sector. We truely don't like our own. Someone who worked hard to built a brand for almost 10years. Is seeking justice. And you guys are bringing sentiments into this. Only of you know what these indigenous manufacturers go through to sustain their businesses.
And you expected him to keep quiet, let's call a spade a spade, the review that lady did, was Never a review, it was just to tarnish the imagine of the brand. To and check the previewed post she made it all over twitter.
If these indigenous manufacturers were this sentimental about their business, do you think their business would still have existed. Especially in this current economy of tinubu. It's still same youth that would complain about no jobs. Most of the people pushing this agenda, are even abroad based. It's the mumu's in Nigeria who can't even afford a Nigerian passport i pity the most.

stallionng:


He did not mention any specific product and try to run it down maliciously
But he referred to and condemned all imported tomatoes,worst than mentioning a specific brand.
A leader should be able to accommodate criticism, disregard the unuseful ones and make use of the good ones

NOwazobia:
You have spoken like the idiot you are.


That head must be very heavy for your neck.

Rejouir:
it will not be his loss, i know what am saying. As it is now, Government doesn't even rate nigerians.

Most nigerians surviving are through the private sector. We truely don't like our own. Someone who worked hard to built a brand for almost 10years. Is seeking justice. And you guys are bringing sentiments into this. Only of you know what these indigenous manufacturers go through to sustain their businesses.
And you expected him to keep quiet, let's call a spade a spade, the review that lady did, was Never a review, it was just to tarnish the imagine of the brand. To and check the previewed post she made it all over twitter.
If these indigenous manufacturers were this sentimental about their business, do you think their business would still have existed. Especially in this current economy of tinubu. It's still same youth that would complain about no jobs. Most of the people pushing this agenda, are even abroad based. It's the mumu's in Nigeria who can't even afford a Nigerian passport i pity the most.

fxexperts:
Don't mind those useless unpatriotic elements we have in this forum. on the one they complain of lack of employment opportunities on the other hand they are there talking down on any entrepreneurs that want to provide you, bunch of useless mofos.


Which useless criticism a criticism that is based on some useless hate. it is just how some useless Nigerians know how to always criticize their own and still end up complaining to the government to create made in Nigerians goods when you with your own hands destroy all the made in Nigerians goods to grow the economy. That lady deserves to rot in prison for the next 50years.

texazzpete:



It’s people like you that are the bane of Nigeria. Always slavishly supporting oppression and mediocrity.

Someone made a review for a product she bought with her own money. That is why a clown is using the Police to oppress her. Do you think this case would have gotten international exposure if he went with a civil defamation suit, or reached out to her in private to take down the review?

You can’t even have the sense or morality to ask why a pregnant woman had to be bundled from her home in the South East, driven to Abuja under escort and then badgered into signing a contrived statement over spurious allegations. Can your Oga (because I assume the man is paying you for this nonsense defence) prove his claims of her being part of a criminal syndicate in court? Can he prove his allegations of Blackmail?


Erisco is on TV publicly claiming you can add water to the paste and eat it with bread as a jam. His products have no single detail about the sugar content in them. There is every indication that Chioma is right…that the amount of sugar in the product is elevated above the levels of other products in the market.


Go and tell your Oga to stop harming his own business by being a national and international embarrassment. Also tell him to break down the sugar content in his product so customers can make an informed decision.


Don’t vex me today. You toadies make me sick.

Rejouir:
Slavishly? Even your government doesn't care if you have eaten today. But your employer do.

I just pity you all, keep up this energy, I prayer is that Sars comes back, to hunt these fraudulent income earners.

Because i don't think, a legit business owner, or rather whoever has worked hard for his money will support this delusional sentimental, agenda you all are pushing.

Just keep up this energy. While the poor gets relieved of their job, the rich, would keep making more money.

If i have observed anything in all these chioma drama, we nigerians don't appreciate our own. We don't. It's only when we can't afford these foreign owned products that's when we run back to our own. You are part of the problem, we have, and this is why dollar will keep gaining relevance over naira.

texazzpete:



When you poverty stricken, zero creativity clowns see people doing better than you, the only recourse is to scream about fraud. SARS that will carry your parents first before me.


You’re here saying we should ‘appreciate our own’. Yes. I appreciate Chioma. Am I supposed to appreciate Mr Eric for harassing a pregnant woman? You think I’m a hopeless groupie like you?

Someone is using security agencies to harass a lady over a review of a product she bought with her own money and you’re supporting the person. What sort of home training did you get?

Look at this thing babbling about dollar as if someone using our scarce forex to import tomato paste for rebadging is helping our Naira. If you want to help the naira, patronize people who use tomatoes grown in Jos to make paste for sale locally.

I see people like you as traitors who glory in and celebrate the destruction of Nigerian institutions. Your parents should have raised you better.

texazzpete:



It’s you and your ilk that are unpatriotic. Look at the international embarrassment we’re getting over this clown’s decision to harass a pregnant woman. And you’re happy?


Support things that will elevate Nigeria instead of things that put us in bad light, but you traitors will never hear word. Always looking for ways to use your faux-patriotism to pull us backward. You’re here arguing that it’s fine for products sold to consumers to have no detailed breakdown of ingredients, because in your coconut head you think Nigerians don’t deserve better.

The good thing now is that this plan has backfired. No judge will convict on those spurious and silly charges. Chioma’s legal funds will be easily crowdfunded. If dem open GoFundMe for her, people will donate lots of money. She will not do jail. And her right to reviews will be sacrosanct.


You better go and take civic education classes so you can learn to love your country better and push for better things for Nigeria instead of being an internet attack dog for a billionaire. Rubbish