BARELY three months after the
National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) destroyed
expired, adulterated and substandard items seized from Enugu, Ebon Paul Orhii
and his team were in Awka the Anambra state capital for a similar assignment.
This time unwholesome, fake and expired items estimated at almost N500
million were seized from manufacturers, importers, traders and destroyed.
He also noted that a larger percentage of the fake and expired drugs
were willingly and voluntarily handed over by the traders.
He disclosed that the agency has also successfully arraigned a Chinese
national in an Awka Federal High Court for the illegal importation of a large
quantity of diapers and that six containers of assorted drugs especially Viagra
were intercepted by the agency's operatives and were at present at the Oshodi,
Lagos office awaiting destruction.
He noted that financial challenges had hampered the acquisition of
drug-testing machines and incinerators but was quick to point out that NAFDAC
was currently working it out with the Federal Government.
The President of the Onitsha Patent Medicine Dealers Association, Mr
Uche Eze described the efforts of the agency in ridding the nation of fake and
unwholesome producers as tremendous.
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