The Lagos State House of Assembly has assured stakeholders in the state that the new Consumer Protection Bill would strengthen the Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency on the right of consumers. Mr Adebisi Yusuff, the Chairman, House Committee on Commerce, Industry and Cooperative, made this known at a day public hearing in Lagos. The…
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the title of the Bill is: ”Law to Establish the Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency, Provide for the Protection of the Interest of Consumers, Settlement of Consumer Disputes and for Connected Purposes.” According to him, the new Bill recommends that offices of the agency should now be opened in all the local governments and where they cannot handle it they should go to the main agency.
“We attended to him as a consumer, I wonder why he is also here today. Under normal circumstances, some of those products are not supposed to be in the market,” he said.