Business
Firm Destroys Stockfish Worth N30m
An Aba-based company, KC Nnodim and Sons Industrial Ltd, has destroyed stockfish worth N30 million it imported from United Kingdom in Aba, Abia.
The company’s Managing Director, Mrs Emmanuela Okoli, said that the stockfish had gone bad due to leakages in the containers that brought it.
Okoli said that although the company lost much money in the transaction but it was more important to save the lives of unsuspecting consumers.
According to her, the shipping line has agreed that the company should destroy the stockfish and we are really making sure that the stockfish are destroyed.
“I hope the shipping line will pay me my money. I am not happy that the stockfish is being burnt because it is my cash that is burning,’’ she said.
Okoli urged other importers to do same because it would help save a lot of lives.
Mr Kingsley Barah, an Environmental Health expert said that he was impressed with the company’s decision.
Barah said that most of such products were being sold in the markets across the country.
“I know it is a big loss to the importer but the importer is minimising the incidence of taken hazardous goods If you don’t burn it this way people will come here and pack it to the markets and sell to the people. I commend the company, not all of them will see the bad stockfish and bring them out for destruction. “Some of them won’t tell anybody. They will sell the goods to the public,” Barah said.
At the destruction site are the representatives of the shipping line and the police.
Also, the company had in conjunction with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), destroyed stockfish worth over N20 million in Aba in November.