Kano state governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has commended Sufaye Investment, owners of Sufi Mart for delivering expired food items worth N175 million to the state government.
BizPoint gathered that the chairman of the Sufaye Investment, Alhaji Ahmed Sufi had delivered the said expired food and drinks items to Kano Consumer Protection Council, KCPC for destruction.
This gesture, it was learnt, had earned the Chairman huge praise and commendation from governor Ganduje.
In a commendation letter, Ganduje praised Sufaye as being a worthy ambassador of dealers of soft drinks and food items in the state.
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“I pray to Allah to grant you jannatul firdaus becouse of this singular act,” Ganduje wrote.
The Chairman of taskforce committee on Consumer Protection Council, Baffa Babba Dan’agundi, on his part, said Sufi is a rare machandise in the state who has been assisting the agency in fishing out bad people who sales expired goods to the public.
Dan’agundi disclosed that even last year, Sufi, in collaboration with the leadership of Singer Market, worked tirelessly during Ramadan to fish out bad eggs.
He added that “the singer market leadership, under Alh Bello are our good friends. However, this development came from Sufaye alone, worth 175m.
Reacting to the development, Sufi said “we delivered this goods to the agency because we believe in the leadership of the agency under Baffa Babba Dan’agundi.
” We will continue to partner with the agency to protect the innocent citizens of our dear state and the country at large,” he assured.
