By Biola Lawal
Flowerbudnews: Accumulated assorted fake, expired unwholesome regulated products – Medicines, chemicals, cosmetics and food etc with street value of over N985 Million were recently destroyed by NAFDAC in Kano.
(NAFDAC DG, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye recently signing a collaborative agreement with South Korea on behalf of Nigeria for an enhanced protection for the health of Nigerians,)
(Unwholesome and dangerous regulated products being burnt in Kano under.the supervision of NAFDAC NWZ Director, Mrs. Josephine Dayilim who stood in for Prof. Adeyeye, the DG at the event)
(NWZ Director answering questions from journalists at the venue of the exercise)
The burnt products were from the entire North West Operational Zone of the Agency. The public destruction served as an effective sensitisation that NAFDAC would not relent its current high-tempo efforts to safeguard the health of the nation.
(Mrs Dayilim, representing the DG and watching the dangerous products burn to ashes)
Besides, and according to some observers, it also served as an effectively warning to traffickers of unwholesome products that sooner or later, NAFDAC would get to them and their dangerous products, as vowed by NAFDAC Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye.
This is a Flowerbudnews pictorial of the public destruction of the confiscated unwholesome products.
The volume of the dangerous products mopped up by NAFDAC in the North West Zone, testified to the commitment an dedication of its operatives, a witness at the venue observed.
About Flowerbudnews
Established by Hon. Biola Lawal, a former Acting Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Flowerbudnews is a consortium of active journalists, media veterans and image makers in both public and private sectors of Nigeria’s media Industry determined to enhance the practice of responsible journalism.
Lawal, on his part, is also a former Honourable Commissioner for Information,Youth, Sports and Culture of Osun state, his home state.
Biola Lawal had also successfully served two tenures as Press Secretary to the ECOMOG Force Commander in Liberia during the Liberian and Sierra Leone Civil wars.
Lawal holds the honour of being the only journalist that served two terms on the ECOMOG international assignment due to his high professionalism and decency)
