CPC Decries Poor Funding

Head, Lagos Zone of Consumer Protection Council (CPC) Mrs Ngozika Obidike, on Tuesday said that funding and inadequate media support were the major constraints of the council.

Obidike told newsmen in Lagos that the council needed more funds and media support to carry out its duties more effectively.

“The Consumer Protection Council cannot independently provide awareness to all Nigerians, we need funding and the support of the media, but this has not been so.

“Every Nigerian is a consumer. The Consumer Protection Council is there to protect consumers’ rights, but most Nigerians do not even know they have rights.

“The council has enough manpower to attend to consumer complaints, but the funds are not sufficient to carry out this Herculean task,’’ she said.

Obidike said that consumers needed to know that they had the right to education, awareness and choice as well as the right to complain about defective goods or poor services.

He urged the Federal Government to allocate more funds to the organisation and appealed to the media to assist in creating public awareness about the activities of the council