Nigeria’s consumer protection framework presents a striking contradiction between legislative advancement and practical enforcement.
Although the country has enacted comprehensive laws and established regulatory bodies aimed at protecting consumers from defective products, unfair market practices, and exploitative commercial conduct, the effective implementation of these protections remains weak and inconsistent.
Consequently, consumer rights that exist robustly on paper are often inadequately enforced in reality, leaving consumers to bear the financial and social consequences of defective and unsafe products.
This article examines the enforcement gaps in Nigeria’s consumer protection framework through the comparative lens of the recent Nestlé recall in the United Kingdom, highlighting how weak enforcement, poor regulatory coordination, ineffective refund mechanisms, and the absence of a structured recall-and-refund regime continue to undermine consumer rights in Nigeria despite existing legal protections under the FCCPA.
It argues that Nigeria’s consumer protection problem is not the lack of laws, but the failure to effectively enforce them and provide meaningful consumer redress.
By: Oyetola Muyiwa Atoyebi SAN, FCIArb (U.K) (Notary Public)
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