Council To Prosecute Sellers, Producers Of Sub-Standard Products

The Consumer Protection Council (CPC) has concluded arrangements to establish mobile courts to prosecute manufacturers and sellers of counterfeit and sub-standard products.

Its South-East Zonal Coordinator, Mr Tam Tamunokonbia, disclosed the plan in an interview with newsmen in Awka on Tuesday.

Tamunokonbia said that the mobile courts would ensure quicker dispensation of justice for arrested suspects.

“We usually arrest producers and sellers of fake and sub-standard goods and hand them over to the police for prosecution but the process of prosecution has been very slow,” he said.

The coordinator said the council was working with state attorneys-general and commissioners for justice for the provision of lawyers for the council to handle cases in the proposed mobile courts.

Tamunokonbia said the council in the zone impounded fake and sub-standard goods worth N9 million in Anambra in 2011.

He said 56 cases of consumers, who were short-changed by sellers of some products were handled and settled by the council during the period.

He, however, complained that the council’s activities in the zone had been hampered by logistic problems and called for government assistance in that regard.