(NAFDAC Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye)
By Biola Lawal
FLOWERBUDNEWS: The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed the
expired, falsified, controlled, unregistered, and banned medicines seized from the Idumota Open Drug Market during the recent three-week enforcement operation.
Flowerbudnews reports that the unwholesome confiscated products, valued at about N100 billion naira, were destroyed at the Lapite Dumpsite in Moniya, Ibadan, Oyo State.
The destruction is part of NAFDAC strategy to permanently safeguard public health by ensuring that the dangerous products were never recycled into the market, a senior NAFDAC official told Flowerbudnews.
A NAFDAC post on X disclosed that several suspects were apprehended in connection with the fake drugs etc during the exercise.
The Agency assured that those found culpable will face appropriate sanctions.
Commenting on the NAFDAC achievements against counterfeiters, an X user, Tunde Akerele said:
”These fake drug dealers and manufacturers are not supposed to be living among the humans, they are animals, they should be made to face the consequences and be made to face firing squads.’: (Flowerbudnews)
