A Nigerian woman who wrote an online review of a can of tomato puree is facing imprisonment after its manufacturer accused her of making a “malicious allegation” that damaged its business.
Did a quick search to see if nutrition and ingredients were listed - they weren't. Saw a lot of "our products are super nutritious trust me bro" in their ads.
Actually makes me thankful of all the regulations our food suppliers have to follow in the US.
I think they're really going to lose a lot of business over this lawsuit. If they had just left that lady alone hardly anyone would have seen her review lol
Only if you can get through the years of litigation, harassment, stress, and have the money to weather it out. Truth and justice are more easily attainable for those who can afford it.
The company’s founder, Eric Umeofia, refused to budge, however, saying in a recent documentary on the local Arise Television channel that he won’t drop the lawsuit against Okoli and that he would “rather die than allow someone to tarnish my image I worked 40 years to grow.”
So this asshole is the person churning up that poor woman's isolated bad review into ALL the Streisand effect he can possibly get, as hard as he can, to the point that it is now international news how abysmally shitty his product really is, AND he's also the person announcing dramatically that he'd rather die than allow anyone to do that.
Hmmm. Will he ever connect the dots?
Nah. He'll just keep blaming and harassing that poor woman for the rest of his days while people stop buying his product in droves because both it and he leave such a bad taste in the mouth.
The woman being harassed by this company and the police is the only that's 39. The article doesn't mention the founder's age, and he definitely looks older than 39 from a quick search.
EDITED TO ADD: It was the lady who was 39, not the guy suing her. My bad. I should probably just go ahead and revisit Hooked on Phonics now because I can't fucking read, lol.
I'm my experience, people like this are shady AF. I had an eBay seller that sent me a car part that didn't match the photo. He kept insisting that he sent the correct part and trying to trick me into sending it back at my cost. It turns out that he was using a drop shipping service that you can use if you own a shop. He had gone out of business and was using an address of a different building that he had sold.
It also turns out that the manufacturer had used the incorrect stock photo for the part. It was neither of our faults, but he wouldn't take ownership as a seller and tried to deny my return and accused me of fraud. eBay gave me a refund on the end because he kept trying to upload something with just the return warehouse address instead of a shipping label like he was supposed to. He lived in a huge house in a major city and wanted to fight me over less than $10 in shipping.
manufacturer had used the incorrect stock photo for the part
That's apparently really common. It's a lot of trouble to bring every transmission, door handle, gas tank, hood hinge, etc... into the studio for a reference image. They use a "basic" image a lot of the times.
I had the good fortune to be able to buy ebay car parts that are exclusively photographed on a dirty workbench, and they've always worked like a charm.
She actually said something along the lines of "your brother's company is killing people the sauce is so sweet" in response to a comment or so I read in another article this morning.
I hope that her defense also makes the argument that there is no damages because online reviews have zero value when the majority of them are fake paid reviews.