National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Tuesday night, sealed completely the business outlet of a popular elite and confectionary company, Chocolat Royal has emerged, The City Reporters can exclusively report.

Apart from the importation, storage and use of fake, unregistered and expired/unwholesome food products to produce consumables for customers, we can authoritatively report that Chocolat Royal was sealed by NAFDAC on discovery of six illegal 40ft cold rooms fully stocked with contaminated food products built on top of sewages (suck away pit) and in front of toilets.

Not only that majority of these food products discovered, have expired since 2004, (11- years ago) and the least 2013, the most worrisome aspect of it all was the discovery to the consternation of NAFDAC officials that the management of Chocolat Royal had revalidated the expiring dates of almost all the food products, while 90 % of them were not even written in English language and therefore not registered.

While two of the illegal cold rooms built in front of toilets were discovered at the Chocolat Royal headquarters at 267A Etim Iyang Crescent, another two were discovered and also sealed at N0 1 Karimu Kotun resident of the Chairman, Mr Amin Moussalli both located in Victoria Island Lagos.

Investigations revealed that Mr Moussalli the chairman of AIM consultants with chains of media houses which include, Cool, Nigeria Info, Wazobia FM stations, Cool as well as WEE television stations who is now at large travels abroad to source for companies whose food products have few months to expire.

This Lebanese business mogul receives these products mostly for free or at a reduced price and also gets paid from these companies to evacuate the products which ordinarily would have cost them colossal amount of money to dispose and ships in large quantities to Nigeria which has become his dumping ground for food toxic for close to two decades.

These products are then cleared at the wharf and offloaded inside the two cold rooms at his Karimu Kotun resident, Victoria Island where they are then transferred to Chocolat Royal headquarters and then used to prepare ice creams, chocolates, beverages and pastries for members of the public.

At the end of the double operations which lasted for nine hours, imported fake, unregistered and expired food products worth over N1bn stocked in these illegal cold rooms were evacuated in six Hilux vans and buses which NAFDAC stormed the place with.

This remarkable feat by NAFDAC was as a result of a tip off from The City Reporters editor/ associate editor New Telegraph who for three years has investigated the activities of Chocolat Royal; a company reputable for playing host to top Nigerian and foreign echelons , including governors, legislatures, managing directors, artistes and others for close to two decades.

When the officials of Food and Drug regulatory Agency stormed Chocolat Royal at exactly 12:15PM with some team of mobile police officers, they were resisted vehemently from carrying out their duties by some senior staff of the confectionary company led by the Finance Director Mr. Idowu Adebayo and others who apparently were on the know of the plot by their Management to decimate Nigeria’s population through food poison.

Understanding the gravity of what was about to happen if eventually discovered, they denied NAFDAC officials’ access to the cold rooms and stores to forestall more discoveries after some large quantities of the expired food products were discovered in their freezers, kitchens and bars upstairs, requesting for search warrant from the officials; a ploy later discovered to be a strategy to enable them evacuate the cold rooms and stores.

The atmosphere was charged to the extent that the bouncers were almost engaging the NAFDAC officials in a brawl forcing the mobile police officers to apply force and made some arrests which eventually made most of them to retreat


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They need to arrest this man and confiscate his properties. Also make sure he is banned from ever owning a food business in Nigeria again. They need to also look into his residency status and revoke it if he refuses to come back and face the law. Do you know how many people have probably died from food poisoning, but their relatives won't believe that Chocolate Royal is capable of this? No mercy at all when it comes to food and drugs. I don't blame him though. When Nigerian's themselves are selling fake drugs without regard for life. He feels he can also kill us as well to make a profit.! This is sick. Only a deranged person will do this and he must be severely punished

Una moods no dey sleep?

Okay.
Nice one.
This country sha
If only this happened in china, north korea or Indonessia, this wicked goat would have been a dead meat.
One by one, we go dey catch dem like Temple run.
No matter their high score, WE GO STILL CATCH DEM
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Can't stop thinking about tomorrow
Sai Buhari!

Ayaf hear..........

Nice info......unto the NeXt

Thank God I don't eat chocolate, only do buy it for them babes I want to straff.

How does this help me trace my ex?

No wonder cancer is becoming prevalent. People feed on this toxic shiit , and all sorts of mutation go on with their body cells.

Hmmmmm, Nafdac should feed the Lebanese all his expired product like he has been doing to unsuspecting Nigerians

Ewwwww! This ppl don kill me, have been patronizing that place for close to a decade now... If I dey enter Cool FM I must lick ice cream 4 Chocolat Royale 1st... Moussali God punish u oh! NAFDAC close everything even their Paint and Bake wey dey everywhere including Palms.

Wen we d citizens dnt value our lives, na foreigner una tink say go hlp us. God knows hw many ppl dat must hv died from dis over d past 20years. N nt 2 mention dat d fake goods wr cleared @ d ports. Obviously some port officials r part of dis n neva cared who died @ d end. I pray evrytin begins 2 change soon

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Why won't a Lebanese treat us this way since we prefer foreign goods to local ones and our ladies so lazy to cook these days.

NAIJA is a big joke.

I still bought 3cups for shade last week

Imagine these lebanese. Chai! Nigeria and Nigerians don suffer. This is a heavy insult to us. Over 10 years of expired goods? The mofo deserve to be castrated and hung upside down

Cool Fm, Wazobia Fm and Co should be confiscated from him ASAP. Nonsense.

pls how did these bad raw materials enter the country and why are they just discovering this after two decades?

What are the names of their products so people can be aware of this when shopping?

the people above me are the night crawlers of nairaland, mods I hail you too. meanwhile this Lebanese business mogul no carry these expired products go e country, hediot. so is this the end of cool n Wazobia FM?

All these foreigners spiting us in our own land...

Hmmm oga ooooo

This story is about one of the biggest things one will ever read this year except the reporting sucks. The journalist leaves many gaping holes in the account, misused figures in order to make a subjective point and generally wrote a shoddy account.
How can products worth N1bn fit into six vans and buses? And how were the products valued anyway?
Even more curiously, only this online blog, The City Reporters, has the story. The account says that the tip off to NAFDAC was given by the Editor of The City Reporters.
So did NAFDAC exchange the tip off for exclusivity for this reporter? Can they please address a general press conference so that we can have a better insight into what actually transpired?
What kind of food products were seized? There was no example in the story.
How is it possible to prepare confectionary with products, some of which have been expired for 11 years without the food taste giving any indication? How did they do it? And did it make economic sense? Consider the cost of running a cold room for those products all these years!

It was unbelievable. I live 2 blocks away from the restaurant and you should see the way people patronize this outlet...even the beggar there has bought machine. But that stupid Lebanese needs to be bought to book i mean a lot of children do eat there and all this time they have been eating contaminated and expired products. The most shocking of all is the maggots that was found in some chocolate plastic. Anyways its a good tin they were shutdown although i am going to miss thier free Wi-Fi.

I don hear

Wow that's so inhumane

personal59:
Hmmm oga ooooo

AceOfDiamonds:
All these foreigners spiting us in our own land...

personal59:
Hmmm oga ooooo

My brother no be there fault bt the fault of pure corruption for it to pass tru d border which also av Nafdac officials is just too bad nd it shows dat pure bribery is involved. How I wish the govt can hold ppl responsible on dis cos dis is not d fault of d president whatsoever atleast there re ppl to check nd balance wat com in nd out of d country nd tomao dey will b shouting d president is bad nd co may God help us

Nd to NAFDAC crying foul did dey ask themself salient questions on hw did it com in tru d boarder cos as I knw abt them they have there representative over there bt the bribery nd corruption within them too is hmmm how I wish ppl knw the present tru picture of nafdac so many visitation that end up in bribing let me just siddon dey look

Can't believe my eyes.yeepa