The foreign-owned supermarket ‘4 U’ located at Wuse 2 Abuja has been sealed off by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) for the sale of substandard bags of rice, intolerable practices, and information concealing information.
Dr Adamu Abdullahi, acting Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission said the supermarket was engaging suppliers who were re-bagging the stallion rice and described the act as unacceptable.
The supermarket had stockpiled stallion and cap rice when Stallion Group and the producers of the product had exhausted their products for a long time.
Abdullahi said the move was targeted at crashing the prices of goods in the country and the sealing was in continuation of the commission’s efforts toward ensuring that prices in the market reflected what was displayed.
He said the Commission would commence enforcement in the open markets to meet with different product associations to discourage price fixing and cartels.
Ms Boladale Adeyinka, Director Surveillance and Investigation of FCCPC who led the enforcement said necessary actions would be taken to ensure that consumers got value for their money and that the bags of rice evacuated by the Commission from the supermarket were weevils infested.
Reacting, the General Manager of the supermarket, Alhaji Yunusa Yusuf said the supermarket would not take absolute responsibility for the substandard rice as it would provide necessary details of their rice supplies to the FCCPC for further investigations.
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