It may be like a month to go but I think it will be advisable to be ready for it. It is World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) 2013 which will take place on 15 March.
This year’s theme is ‘Consumer Justice Now!, giving Consumers International members a unique opportunity to raise the profile of consumer protection and highlight consumer rights abuses in their country.
According to Helen McCallum, DG, Consumers International, "We also want to share your experiences of poor consumer laws and their impact."
This mean a lot to us in Nigeria where consumers are exploited everyday with no one to fight their cause thereby allowing the perpetrators go scot free or a slap on the wrist.
The exploitation in Nigeria is higher in the mobile phone operators corridor. Virtually every one has had one bad experience or the other with these operators and it ranges from jammed networks to illegal deductions.
In the midst of all these, neither the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) nor the lawmakers are doing anything about it.
Now, you can share your experience with the whole world by sending your stories of consumer abuse by email to vviyer@consint.org or sending a tweet with the hashtag #wcrd2013.
Your stories would be featured on their WCRD
map.
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