The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has sealed a Chinese supermarket located within the China General Chamber of Commerce in Abuja, the nation’s capital over allegations of barring Nigerians from the store.
Officials of the FCCPC shut the supermarket on Monday.
The place was sealed following the interrogation of Nigerian workers at the supermarket.
Nigerians had expressed outrage over a discriminatory policy implemented by the Chinese Supermarket, barring Nigerians and granting exclusive entry to Chinese nationals in the country.
According to the facility manager of the complex, Shaibu Sanusi, Nigerians from outside the complex do not shop but Nigerians within can access it.
This was as facilities workers at the store disclosed that the owner of the supermarket had fled the premises.
The workers, who were largely Nigerians, disclosed that the owner of the supermarket had fled when the officials of the Commission stormed the supermarket on Monday.
The workers said that the owner of the supermarket, a Chinese lady, Cindy Liu Bei, fled on Monday at 8:26 am with her family as confirmed on the Closed-Circuit Television camera.
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