From Nweke Nweke, Onitsha
Dealers on the products of Blount European Plc, makers of carpentry tools ranging from chainsaw, condenser, complicit coil among others with the initial of CARLTON has accused the immediate past governorship candidate of Peoples Progressive Alliance, PPA, Chief Godwin Ezeemo of having flooded Nigerian carpentry markets with substandard products of the company, this remark has portrayed Chief Ezeemo on the bad light considering the status he has attained in Anambra politics.
Chief Ezeemo who took the Managing Director, MD of Blount European Plc, Mr. Morinx Kuypers and sales manager of the company, Mr. Simon Pears round various shops in the carpentry tools at Bridgehead market in Onitsha South Local Government area where the goods described as substandard by the dealers are been sold, got the highest disgraced in his life when the two American citizens were publicly confronted for using Nigeria as a dumping ground. The traders flayed over the rusted products Blount European Plc scattered in all the markets in Nigeria.
Flanked by his media songbirds, the politician cum business icon while inspecting the products in the market told the traders that they were in the market to ascertain the quandary as well as the challenges confronting them, noting that all the negativity of the products they observed will be addressed soon.
The assembling men of the products met at their various shops during the visit of the managing director and the sales manger, Mr. Akai Ngoka, Onyeka Izunobi, Israel Ifeanyi to mention but a few, openly condemned the products. They wondered why CARLTON that has made its feet in the Nigerian markets will now turn out to be a dead trap to the end users.
“Thank God that the Managing Director, MD of Blount European Plc, Mr. Morinx Kuypers and sales manager of the company, Mr. Simon Pears together with Chief Godwin Ezeemo are here. All we are saying is that they should reverse to the former products they use to send to us so that the revere of the company will be intact. Nigeria should not be seen as a dumping ground. Look, almost all the chainsaws in all the shops in the market are rusted and the end users are complaining over it” they stated.
Tendering public apology before over fifty traders that gathered at Top Rank Hotel, Fegge in Onitsha to mark the end of the visit, Chief Godwin Ezeemo took his time in appealing to the dealers and the end users by extension to bear with them, assuring that the issue will be addressed soon.
Apologizing also, the Managing Director, MD of Blount European Plc, Mr. Morinx Kuypers and sales manager of the company, Mr. Simon Pears urged their patronizes to forgive them, stating that with their visit to Onitsha carpentry tools market, they have discovered the problem facing the traders and the end users of their products.
The US citizens made it known that Chief Godwin Ezeemo is their sole distributor in Africa, owing it up that it is their fault to have flooded Nigeria markets with products that are not to the dehydration of the users. They however vowed to change all the rusted chainsaws bought by the traders to new ones very soon.
