MONROVIA, LIBERIA-The Ministry of Commerce has discovered several expired products including detergents and edibles at the Harbel Supermarket on Randall Street.
The arrest made on Wednesday, is one of the several arrests made by the Commerce Ministry since it embarked on the search for expired Goods in the Nation’s Capital, Monrovia and its environs.
Our reporter who was on an inspection tour with the Inspector General of Commerce photographed meat that has been expired since 2016.
Commerce Inspector General Josephine Davies told reporters that the expired products will be sorted by commerce inspectors and disposed of by the relevant institutions of government.
Madam Davies stressed that a fine will be levied in accordance with law against the supermarket and all other businesses found guilty of storing expired products.
Meanwhile, Deputy Minister for Commerce and Trade Services Nyema Wisner has expressed confidence in Madam Davies’s ability and integrity to continue with her work void of interference.
Deputy Minister assured that no call from a higher up in government will deter them from doing what is right to ensure that Liberians consume healthy food.
He revealed that the two businesses discovered in the Waterside Market area to have been harboring expired goods actually belong to a Lebanese for who a Liberian was fronting.
By: Julius Jeh
