The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) in Osun says it confiscated more than 1,000 underweighed bags of rice in Osogbo markets on Monday.
Mr Sunday Badewole, the SON State Coordinator, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Osogbo on Tuesday.
Badewole said the agency made the confiscation during the enforcement operation where more than 1,000 bags of 5kg, 10kg and 25kg of bags of rice were confiscated.
He said many of the rice sellers had reduced the quantity of rice from the kilogrammes that were indicated on the bags, to make more money.
Badewole said the observation carried out by the enforcement team of the agency in the markets during the raid revealed that rice sellers would remove some measures from the bags of rice and seal it back for sale.
He said the quantities removed would thereafter be repackaged in another bag, sealed and sold to buyers.
Badewole said the rice sellers confessed that they used to buy empty rice bags from Lagos to repackage the quantities that was stolen from the original bags.
“Based on the information from our operations directorate headquarters that under weighed bags of rice were in circulation, we went to the market with our scale.
“But it is very unfortunate that many of these small bags of rice have been reduced by the sellers to make more gain,’’ he said.
Badewole said all the shops where the underweighed rice were found had been sealed and put on hold.
NAN
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