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  • Bill is to protect consumer rights, says Lagos Assembly

    The Lagos State House of Assembly has said the consumer protection agency bill before the House will prevent the continued violation of consumer rights by manufacturers and service providers in the state.

    Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Public Petitions, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, stated this at the public hearing on the bill, which held at the Lateef Jakande Auditorium at the Assembly complex, Alausa yesterday.

    The private member bill was sponsored by Speaker of the House, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji and has been pending since the 6th Assembly.

    Tagged ’A bill for a law to establish the consumer protection agency, provide for the protection of the interest of consumers, settlement of consumer disputes and for connected purposes’ Agunbiade said it is the answer to previous forms of intervention which are inadequate.

    “There have been forms of intervention here and there to protect consumers but we feel that the law is not adequate enough to protect consumers and that is why we still have a lot of consumer rights being violated by manufacturers and service providers.

    “Lagos state now decides to take the bull by the horn as to have a more enduring law that will further protect more effectively the right of every consumer and we are taking it down to the grassroots by creating desk of the agency at the local councils”, Agunbiade said.

    When the law becomes fully operational, the agency’s objectives shall include: to promote and protect the rights of the consumers which includes but not limited to the right to be protected against marketing of goods and services which are hazardous to life.

     

     

     

     

  • Unity Bank to give out two cars

    Two customers of Unity bank are to win two brand new cars as reward for participating in the bank’s Save & Win promo. The winners will emerge from the second national draw of the savings promo holding on Saturday, in Lagos.

    A statement from the bank said the event scheduled to take place at Planet One Entertainment centre, Maryland, Lagos, will be witnessed by journalists, customers of the bank, officials of the National Lottery Commission, Consumer Protection Council of Nigeria (CPC) and other members of the public.

    The first national draw was held at the Yar dua Centre in Abuja in July at which a customer of the bank in Maiduguri, Borno State won the star prize of Hyundai Verna car. The customer has since taken possession of the car.

    According to the Media and External Communications Manager of the bank, Sani Mohammed Zaria, consolation prizes of fridges and generators will also be given to other qualifying participants at the draw. He disclosed that 3,750 savers qualified for the national draw from all the operational areas of the bank nationwide.

    He also intimated that Unity bank has three more cars and other consolation prizes to give out in the course of the savings promo scheduled to end later in the month.

    The three cars will be given out to winning customers at the grand finale of the six month long promotion popularly known as Aim, Save and Win.

    The bank has also held zonal draws in the five zones of the bank namely, Lagos & West, Central, North West, North East and South-South in its bid to bring the reward programme down to the grassroots. Many customers won motorcycles, fridges, LCD television sets, phones and bicycles among others.