National Agency for Food and Drugs
Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Tuesday
night, sealed completely the business outlet of a
popular elite and confectionary company,
Chocolat Royal has emerged, The City Reporters
can exclusively report.
Apart from the importation, storage and use of
fake, unregistered and expired/unwholesome
food products to produce consumables for
customers, we can authoritatively report that
Chocolat Royal was sealed by NAFDAC on
discovery of six illegal 40ft cold rooms fully
stocked with contaminated food products built on
top of sewages (suck away pit) and in front of
toilets.
Not only that majority of these food products
discovered, have expired since 2004, (11- years
ago) and the least 2013, the most worrisome
aspect of it all was the discovery to the
consternation of NAFDAC officials that the
management of Chocolat Royal had revalidated
the expiring dates of almost all the food products,
while 90 % of them were not even written in
English language and therefore not registered.
While two of the illegal cold rooms built in front
of toilets were discovered at the Chocolat Royal
headquarters at 267A Etim Iyang Crescent,
another two were discovered and also sealed at
N0 1 Karimu Kotun resident of the Chairman, Mr
Amin Moussalli both located in Victoria Island
Lagos.
Investigations revealed that Mr Moussalli the
chairman of AIM consultants with chains of
media houses which include, Cool, Nigeria Info,
Wazobia FM stations, Cool as well as WEE
television stations who is now at large travels
abroad to source for companies whose food
products have few months to expire.
This Lebanese business mogul receives these
products mostly for free or at a reduced price
and also gets paid from these companies to
evacuate the products which ordinarily would
have cost them colossal amount of money to
dispose and ships in large quantities to Nigeria
which has become his dumping ground for food
toxic for close to two decades.
These products are then cleared at the wharf and
offloaded inside the two cold rooms at his Karimu
Kotun resident, Victoria Island where they are
then transferred to Chocolat Royal headquarters
and then used to prepare ice creams, chocolates,
beverages and pastries for members of the
public.
At the end of the double operations which lasted
for nine hours, imported fake, unregistered and
expired food products worth over N1bn stocked
in these illegal cold rooms were evacuated in six
Hilux vans and buses which NAFDAC stormed
the place with.
This remarkable feat by NAFDAC was as a result
of a tip off from The City Reporters editor/
associate editor New Telegraph who for three
years has investigated the activities of Chocolat
Royal; a company reputable for playing host to
top Nigerian and foreign echelons , including
governors, legislatures, managing directors,
artistes and others for close to two decades.
When the officials of Food and Drug regulatory
Agency stormed Chocolat Royal at exactly
12:15PM with some team of mobile police officers,
they were resisted vehemently from carrying out
their duties by some senior staff of the
confectionary company led by the Finance
Director Mr. Idowu Adebayo and others who
apparently were on the know of the plot by their
Management to decimate Nigeria’s population
through food poison.
Understanding the gravity of what was about to
happen if eventually discovered, they denied
NAFDAC officials’ access to the cold rooms and
stores to forestall more discoveries after some
large quantities of the expired food products were
discovered in their freezers, kitchens and bars
upstairs, requesting for search warrant from the
officials; a ploy later discovered to be a strategy to
enable them evacuate the cold rooms and stores.
The atmosphere was charged to the extent that
the bouncers were almost engaging the NAFDAC
officials in a brawl forcing the mobile police
officers to apply force and made some arrests
which eventually made most of them to retreat
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