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As portion of the efforts to combat the influx of fake, adulterated and expired drugs successful the country, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized phoney malaria drugs worthy N1.2 billion.
Speaking to journalists, the manager of Investigation and Enforcement, Martin Dotun, lamented that contempt efforts by the bureau to escaped the state of fake drugs, unscrupulous traders inactive import counterfeit drugs into the state for the depletion of unsuspecting members of the public.
According to Dotun, the imported fake and expired drugs were concealed wrong conveyance spare parts and were seized successful Lagos.
“As portion of their efforts to deceive our personnel, the importer told NAFDAC officials who confronted them on Oshodi-Mile 2 Expressway that the conveyance contained spare parts, but erstwhile enforcement officials trailed the conveyance to its destination, it was discovered that the drugs were hidden among the expected conveyance spare parts.
These are portion of the follow-up bid of operations, which we started a fewer months agone with the raid of Aba, Onitsha and Idumota markets, wherever we seized galore drugs. And I tin guarantee you that this volition not halt until the mandate from President Tinubu and NAFDAC DG, Dr Mojisola Adeyeye, to prevention Nigerians from the menace of fake drugs is accomplished.
“You tin ideate however galore radical these would person impacted if these were not rapidly seized, particularly arsenic they came with antithetic fake tags bearing antithetic labels, arsenic the statement would person misled radical into buying them arsenic anti-malaria drugs.”
“We shall not permission immoderate chromatic unturned until we stamp retired such,” helium noted.
Speaking earlier, the serviceman who led the cognition connected August 29, 2025, Florence Uba, said the seized drugs were labelled with antithetic names.
“We saw the agelong motortruck loaded with expected conveyance spare parts. But I decided to travel the conveyance to the warehouse wherever they were offloading the expected conveyance spare parts. Though they tried to deceive us, telling america that it was simply spare parts, we, however, saw that these 277 cartons of the drugs were wrong them.
“On person look, we saw they gave fake declaration portion the cartons carried antithetic names, the packs of 277 carried antithetic names, the sachets of the drugs carried 2 antithetic names, and until we bash Laboratory test, we are yet to cognize the nonstop contents of those sachets.
“We person present what they tagged Diclofenac potassium enteric coated 50mg, Arthemeter/ lemufathrine 80/480 Mg-, Each tablet supposedly contains Arthemeter/ lemufathrine 80/480 Mg until it is tested successful the laboratory.”
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