How Chocolate Royale Fed Children, Others With Expired, Spoilt Ingredients

Have you ever purchased chocolate or any other product at the famous Chocolate Royale on Etim Inyang Crescent, Victoria Island, Lagos? If yes is your answer, then it would be advisable that you quickly visit a competent hospital to ascertain your current health status, especially if you have done a check up for a long time.

This is because the chocolate you bought at Chocolate Royale, owned by Amin Moussalli, also the owner of Cool FM, Wazobia FM and their respective sister TV stations, might have caused a serious risk to your body system.

Few days ago, officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, shut down the company because they were using expired and unapproved products to make what they sell to people, which have been unknowingly consumed by millions of them.

It is no doubt that apart from the many wealthy Nigerians and expatriates that have purchased their expensive products, many middle earners, including children, have also patronised them.

But what most of them never knew was that they were eating what might kill them.

NAFDAC officials also beamed their searchlights on the residence of the Managing Director on 1 Karimu Kotun Street, also on Victoria Island, Lagos. It was discovered that he had unsafe food items used at Chocolate Royale in his possession.

According to spokesman of the agency, Anslem Okonkwor, NAFDAC swung into action after a tip off that the company was dealing in the importation of expired and unregistered ingredients to produce its products that their customers consume.

Okonkwor disclosed that at the MD’s house, “large quantities of various expired and spoilt food ingredients worth millions naira were uncovered.”

These, he said, were worth over N1 billion.

Meanwhile, the Director-General of NAFDAC, Paul Orhii, has ordered the investigators to demand the company’s goods clearing documents to ascertain whether the unsafe products were legally cleared at the points of entry.