The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, on Friday in Abuja raided hawkers of unwholesome medicine on the Nyanya/Mararaba axis of Abuja.
Addressing newsmen after the train, the staff chief of the operation, Umar Suleiman, mentioned the operation adopted an earlier surveillance carried out by officers of the enforcement unit of the company .
Mr Suleiman, who’s an Assistant Chief Regulatory Officer, Federal Task Force, Investigation and Enforcement, NAFDAC, mentioned that the operation was additionally to substantiate if Baban Aisha Herbal product had been nonetheless in the market.
The News Agency of Nigeria experiences that the company had some few weeks in the past raided Baban Aisha manufacturing manufacturing unit alongside Abuja/Kaduna highway for promoting unregistered natural merchandise.
NAFDAC had alleged that Baban Aisha had solely registered a few of his natural drugs, utilizing the privilege of the registered ones to promote others which had been but to be registered.
The company additionally raided and sealed Al-Nassar Islamic Herbal drugs retailer, No. 151 Minna Road, Suleja, Niger State.
Meanwhile, Mr Suleiman mentioned that these doing advert on Baban Aisha merchandise weren’t permitted for now.
He mentioned that the company was in a position to nab 5 of the hawkers of the unwholesome medicine, the place considered one of them escaped.
“Most of the drugs we seized in the Suleja shop are sex enhancers (Manpower), sex enhancers drug like Night Rocket, Black diamond, double rocket, AK-47 and many more.
“We also seized other herbal preparation medicine such like transformer, maibulala, maibusher.
“At that particular shop alone in Suleja, drug found there worth N35 million, and for the hawkers, we have an estimate of N10 million.
“Some of the drugs in the Suleja shop are even not herbal, with ponographic pictures which are not approved by NAFDAC. You can see that he is selling them in bulk, it’s like the owner of the shop is a dealer.
“We believe that if we tackle the dealer, retailers will not have access to buy from the source, this is why we do our traceability to get the source, we have been able to discover the main supplier in Suleja now,” he mentioned.
Mr Suleiman mentioned that NAFDAC is planning to increase its search operations to different regulated merchandise like meals, cosmetics, medical gadgets, detergent, bundle water and chemical substances.
According to him, the company remains to be engaged on drug merchandise due to the impact on the physique, since individuals used it every day.
He mentioned the company would quickly start its search mission on pharmaceutical shops, and their warehouses all in the purpose of ridding the nation of counterfeit and faux medicine.
Mr Suleiman counseled NAFDAC Director-General, Mojisola Adeyeye, for her assist to the investigation and enforcement unit of the company, saying that such assist had strengthened its operation.
Embugushiki Godiya, desk officer, Investigation and Enforcement, Federal Task Force, NAFDAC, counseled the media for assist to the unit, including that the media’s position had projected the actions of the unit.
He mentioned that the raid would ship a sign to different individuals on the market which can be planning to promote the identical unwholesome medicines.
“Today’s operation is a very successful one for us, we are using this medium to call on all Nigerians to stop patronising hawkers of drug medicine.
“If Nigerians stop patronising these people, there will be nothing for them.
“We want to thank the media because with them, our enforcement activities have been heightened in the recent time,” he burdened.
NAN
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