Tony Okafor, Awka
Two truckloads of fake Kiwi polish have been destroyed in Awka, Anambra State, following an order of the state High Court.
The court, presided over by Justice I.U. Ndigwe, had ordered that the product, valued at N30m, be destroyed by burning.
The product was impounded in Onitsha through collaboration efforts of Asco Investment Limited, a distributor of Kiwi polish in Nigeria, and operatives of the Nigeria Police.
Justice Ndigwe delivered the judgment in a matter between Hyginus Chukwuma and Uju Anike as plaintiffs, against the police and the Managing Director, Asco Investment, Chief Sam Anyanwutaku, as respondents.
The destruction was supervised by the police and officials of SC Johnson, manufacturers of the Kiwi brand of polish in West Africa.
Anyanwutaku decried the rate of fake products being peddled in the country, blaming regulatory agencies.
He said the failure of regulatory agencies to stop the importation of fake products into the country was killing the economy.
He said, “The public execution of the Onitsha High Court judgment is to make sure that consumers buy only original products, and a warning to those who deal in fake products to desist from doing so.”
The Managing Director, SC Johnson in West Africa sub region, Mr. Oghale Elueni, took a swipe at regulatory agencies, including the Standards Organisation of Nigeria.
He accused regulatory agencies in the country of frustrating the efforts of manufacturers by not being proactive when complaints about fake product importers were brought to them.
Elueni said, “When you take a report to them, you find out that it takes as long as six months before they work on the complaints. By that time, the importers of the products would have been alerted.”
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