By Ovat Abeng
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has burnt to ashes a total of one hundred trucks of expired, fake, and other substandard and unwholesome regulated products worth over a trillion naira in Onitsha, Anambra State and Aba in Abia State respectively.
The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof Moji Adeyeye, who address the public before the burning exercise that took place at Anambra State Waste Management Authority ASWAMA’s dumped site in Awka, on Friday, said the items were seized during a one-month sensitization enforcement at various shops in the two commercial cities.
She said the destruction of the expired drugs would eliminate the risk of their reintroduction into the Nigerian market and a proof of NAFDAC’s resolve to safeguard the health of the nation by ensuring that only genuine medicines and wholesome foods of the right quality are imported and manufactured in the country.
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She reiterated that drug counterfeiting is an act of economic sabotage and also represents a serious threat to public health.
She commended the security agencies, the media, specially, the governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Charles Soludo and his Abia counterpart, Dr Alex Otti for their continued support in the ongoing war against fake and substandard drugs in Nigeria.
Dr Adeyeye was represented by the Director of NAFDAC South East Zone, Dr Martins Iluyomade during the burning spray.
