Get your standard measurement cup from Imo CPC, ISAMATA, Market masters, stop cheating consumers – Obioma tells grain sellers.
In her bid to stop permanently the cheating of consumers in Imo States by producers and sellers of goods and services, Director General of Imo State Consumers Protection council, Hon. Mrs. Obioma Okafor, has announced the readiness of the council to go against market sellers who are fond using substandard cups to sell goods to consumers.
It was revealed during a media interaction with some group of journalists in Owerri that Imo State Consumer Protection Council (CPC) has received up to 500 dozens of standard measurement cups from Chester Plastic Industry Ltd.
You may recall that the World Consumer Rights Day Celebration held on 15th of March, 2021, the Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodimma, who was represented by Chief Cosmos Iwu, the Secretary to Government of Imo State, launched the first indigenous measurement cups.
The provision of this indigenous measurement cups marked a historic step towards the goal to ensure that consumers in Imo State are adequately protected from being shortchanged by grain dealers. The delivery of these cups to CPC office for onward distribution to all the grain dealers in Imo State for the measurement of rice, beans, garri among others is part of the promise made and fulfilled by Senator Hope Uzodimma to imolites.
There is no doubt that Okafor’s leadership in CPC has made tremendous impact by leading efforts to procure and supply these standard measurement cups to grain dealers on behalf of the state government to reduce the rate of malpractices among the grain dealers at the detriment of unsuspecting consumers.
These measurement cups have undergone rigorous regulatory processes at both state and federal levels and had been approved and confirmed to be standard by Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Abuja, under the Department of Weight and Measures.
By this feat, Okafor has practically demonstrated her commitment to complement the efforts of the present administration in Imo towards ensuring that consumers’ interests are firmly protected.
According to the DG Imo CPC, the arrival of these measurement cups marks a milestone for Governor Hope Uzodimma’s unprecedented effort to ensure that citizens get value for what they purchase with their money which is encapsulated in the 3R mantra. “No more, I bought two cups of garri or rice, when I get home, it was one and half”, she said.
Moving forward, Imo State Consumer Protection Council (CPC) by this publication has commenced the distribution and enforcement of the use of measurement cups by grain dealers to sell all kinds of grains in Imo State.
This is a landmark moment for consumers in Imo State and a clear proof of CPC’s mission to end all forms of sharp practices associated with grains selling, perhaps its expected that all grains dealers will henceforth sell their goods with these approved measurement cups, as any body who fails to comply with the directives will face severe punishment.
