WCRD: NIMN seeks reconstitution of Enugu consumer protection c’ttee

The National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN) has called on Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu state to reconstitute the Enugu State Consumer Protection Committee (ESCPC).

Chairman of NIMN, Enugu state chapter, Dr. Oliver Ngwoke, who made the call Monday at a mini conference organised by the Institute to mark the 2021 World Consumer Rights Day, said when the committee is reconstituted, “it will grant the consumers of goods and services in Enugu State the opportunity to make complaints and get adequate justice whenever these rights are infringed upon.”

Ngwoke had earlier called on consumers to always seek the help of government agencies set up to protect consumers from abuse by producers of goods and services such as NCC, NERC, NAFDAC, and FCCPC to enforce their rights whenever they are trampled upon.

“Whenever and wherever your right as a consumer is trampled upon, I urge you to take advantage of their services in laying your complaints,” Nwoke urged.

The NIMN boss noted that the World Consumer Rights Day was designed to create awareness on consumers’ rights worldwide and how such rights should be protected.

He said it was also an opportunity to enlighten, educate and inform consumers on their rights.

Speaking on the theme, “Tackling Plastic Pollution,” Ngwoke said consumers ought to know how best to manage plastic wastes so that they do not constitute environmental hazards since plastics are not degradable.

He said products these days are mainly packaged with plastic and should be disposed properly to avoid contaminating the environment.

“Most products we use today are packaged with plastic and in the course of buying and using them, we abuse the disposal which takes a very long time to decay.  Plastics contaminate the environment.  It pollutes land, sea and even the air when burnt,” he pointed out.

A resource person, Prof. Chukwudi Nwaizugbo of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, lamented that plastic pollution has the tendency to rub mankind of aquatic lives in the near future if the use of plastic is not minimised or discontinued.

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