With so much amazement and disgust, I always see folks openly hawking around and selling United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) educational relief materials. Some traders even display it brazenly for sale in their shops. The irony is that on those materials it is boldly written; “This Item is Not for Sale”, but people will out of greed and sheer foolishness trade those materials even in the open market.
Instead of sharing it with the right people freely that it is meant to, they will rather hoard it and sell it out. This is a crime and wickedness against humanity and whenever I see this I always wonder what the law enforcement agencies are doing about it or are they not seeing it as well?
Not just school bags and notebooks that are meant for indigent school children are being sold in the open markets, also mosquito nets that are to be freely distributed and shared amongst rural dwellers and those living in mosquito-prone areas as a United Nation agency fights against malaria are also be seen in the open market being sold with the inscription “not for sale” boldly written on them.
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As expected, Covid 19 relief materials were also hoarded and sold by people who were supposed to freely distribute them to their ward members during the covid 19 peak.
In October 2021, the Adamawa state government arrested ten officials and charged them to court for having hoarded and sold educational relief materials like school bags and notebooks sent by the United Nation agency that is meant for indigent school children.
For those that might be ignorant of the law, when an item it’s marked not for sale, the act of selling it amounts to stealing, and both the seller and the buyer will be held liable for theft. The buyers and the sellers are guilty of the crime of theft so when next you see an item that is not meant to be sold, do not buy such items no matter how ridiculously cheap they are, instead notify the law enforcement authorities. How you will know such items is that “Not for Sale” will be boldly inscribed on them.
The law provides that anyone who buys an item of this nature is liable to fourteen years imprisonment for receiving stolen property as provided in the criminal code act.