Hilolimus Mahundi, WMA acting manager in Mwanza Region said in an interview yesterday that the plan is meant to protect people so that traders cannot exploit them at the time of selling or buying commodities at the open markets in the region.
He said that in implementing the plan, staff will be passing at the markets and educating people on the negative effects of using unauthorized measures.
Mahundi noted that after the education, WMA will seriously start to reinforce the existing Weights and Measures Act, Cap.340 and its regulations which are being violated at the markets with a view to impound defaulters.
He said that currently most traders estimate weights and measures at the time of selling or buying commodities from people by using unauthorized units, a thing that is wrong according to the law.
“For instance if someone buys a kilogramme of sugar the weight should exactly be correct by using WMA verified weighing scale and not just estimating it with eyes or using unauthorized measures”, he said.
He said that the act of traders using unauthorized weighing scales is likely to exploit customers, although sometime can also exploit the traders themselves owing to estimation.
Sometimes traders use tins or plastic buckets to measure weights or volume of commodities and therefore make the contents to be less or more than expected, he underscored.
He pointed out that it is the responsibility of the agency to ensure that traders sell or buy commodities from people by using authorized weights and measures for value of money.
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