Expired Good Seized By Aweil Municipality

This article was last updated on May 25, 2022

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Addressing the journalists over the issue, the deputy town mayor Hon. Simon Tong Deng says his office is in possession of a number of consumable goods which he declares to have been confiscated from the traders as they become poisonous to eat and he adds that his office is inquiring for reports on such related issues for the sake of protecting the consumers’ safety.

“As our assigned security and other organized personnel were carrying out their normal duty of good inspection in Aweil market this week, they found out that number of consumable goods have their dates of consumption expired and were not reported to our office for checking and we came and found out that they were completely out of date,” he said.

He said the authority is planning to form a team to destroy the expired goods.

Among these expired consumable goods are 28 bags of maize flour, 23 bags of sugar, 30 cartons of tea leaves, 15 bags of lentils, 20 bags of sorghum, 14 cartons of Pepsi, 4 cartons of Tahania, a bucket of cheese and baking powder respectively.

Tong also says the office is going to speedily form a committee that shall look into the burning process as soon as possible the space is going to be limited as the number expired goods is increasing on daily basis.

Despite the high number of illiteracy in South Sudan and state in particular, Tong warns the buyers to be very cautious when buying and urges them to report cases of deceitfulness, fraudulence and perfidy should it happen that there are traders who insist selling expired goods to the consumers opting for excuse of ignorance and negligence.

“I want to inform the public to be always alert when buying any single item in any shop because these traders who always pretend to be honest but rather sedition when dealing with illiterate customers. The citizens must open their eyes and always reports cases of expired goods to his office throughout when persistence happens to be there,” he said.

Moreover, Tong urged the county commissioners to do the same kind of market inspections throughout on weekly basis to help reduce these cases of traders selling expired goods.

He also threatens to bring those traders found to be selling the expired goods into justice should they insist carrying out the same practice in the state. 

Several expired goods which are mostly confiscated have been so far burnt but the practice still persists.