By Olasunkanmi Akoni
Consumer Protection Council, (CPC) has made fresh moves to combat counterfeiting of electronic products in Nigeria through collaborations with Alaba International Market Amalgamated Traders Association, AIMATA, and Sharp Corporation of Japan.

The Director General, CPC, Mrs. Ify Umenyi, made the declaration at a public enlightenment campaign on products counterfeiting, held at Alaba International Market, Lagos, in commemoration of the 2012 World Consumer Rights Day.

Mrs. Umenyi, speaking through Deputy Director, CPC Headquarters Abuja, Engineer Shamm Kolo, said the rate of counterfeiting in the market was unacceptable to the consumers who used their money to buy products only to be defrauded through the sale of fake product, thereby causing them economic losses and other damages.

“Alaba International Market has continued to be implicated as a harbour for producers of counterfeit variants of genuine electrical and electronic products in Nigeria.

Chairman, International Market Association, Electronics, IMA, Alaba Market, Chief Celestine Ezeani, said as the association is waging war against piracy in the market, they are also committed to waging war against products counterfeiting in the market.

Ezeani appealed to the Federal Government to provide enabling environment for manufacturing of indigenous products.