The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Moji Adeyeye said the ban on the sale and consumption of sachet alcoholic beverages in the country is still in force.

Adeyeye said this on Wednesday at a press briefing held in Lagos and monitored by our correspondent via Zoom.

She said, “The ban on sachet alcohol is a ministerial directive and the ban still remains until the ministers respond. The meeting last week Thursday is a continuation of the discussion.

“The outcome of the meeting is that the ministers should write a memo to the Speaker (of Reps) and the House (of Reps), and the Representative of the Speaker, Prof Jake Dan-Azumi then said we should continue the discussion after the recess of the House members in July. So, the discussion continues.”

The deputy spokesman for the House of Representatives, Philip Agbese, last Friday disclosed the House and NAFDAC resolved to lift the ban on the sale and consumption of sachet alcoholic beverages in the country.

Agbese said the resolution to lift the ban temporarily was arrived at after a meeting between the House Committee and NAFDAC officials, noted

He said the lifting of the ban would end when the economy fully recovers from its current strain.

On February 1, 2024, NAFDAC commenced the enforcement of the ban on the importation, manufacture, distribution, sale and use of alcoholic beverages in sachets, PET, and glass bottles of 200ml and below.

The NAFDAC DG said the decision was based on the recommendation of a high-powered committee of the Federal Ministry of Health, NAFDAC, Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, and the industry represented by the Association of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Employers, Distillers and Blenders Association of Nigeria, in December 2018.

However, the move to enforce the ban has generated repeated protests by distillers and labour unions, who said the ban would cost 500,000 workers their jobs, and ruin N800bn investments.

Meanwhile, medical experts warned that lifting the ban on alcoholic beverages will lead to acute health complications, increased road traffic accidents, increased risk of abuse of alcohol, liver problems, heart-related problems, and cancers, among others.

Source: https://punchng.com/Ban-on-sachet-alcoholic-beverages-still-in-force-NAFDAC

Moji Adeyeye, The entire NAFDAC, the satchet alcoholic and Desmond Eliot are all mad!

Is this organization still in existence?

Things wey still plenty wey people dey buy and sell everyday.

This has to be a joke. It will be better to deal with manufacturers that hurting the consumer and distributors.

To ban or not to ban?

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E be things - Justice for Ogogoro satchet

This is a good development. We need to strategise ways to control the goods going into the market for consumption.


As it stands, anyone can just produce nonsense and use a branded label without proper checks...


We keep consumption nonsense. But we have a government and agencies created to keep us safe.

Ur life, their lives

Abeg. What of those that can't afford bottle own?

I doubt

People have been drinking water all this while?

Can't NAFDAC shut down the factories and arrest the vendors selling them?

Simply banning something from an office isn't enough.

They need to take action on the streets.

This agency is lazy. I'm tired of them too...

It's God that saves us from the harmful things we eat in this country because they're not doing their job

Dey play
Something I still bought yesterday

Fenuja.... Abeg make una no ban am ooo,.
NA wetin dey give us small joy

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oluwafreshkid:
To ban or not to ban?

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Grade AA UK quality.
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Confused government


One minute they're saying one thing, the next minute they're denying it

Which God created all APC elected and Appointed candidate ?
Which kind of creatures are these fools.

Immidiately they assume office they just turn to a Dunce, why now?

God need to deliver us from these People, they are fully ready to turn this Country upside down.

They don't ever get the simplest thing right!

Oh God! Why now, why do we deserve these kind of People of as Leaders?

Its not possible, something that been sold everywhere, even in Government hospital and Police Station.

Make them ban this thing... it's killing.

U want to ban things like that, just write to the few Manufacturers to stop the production and if u still see it on the street, you just go straight to the Factory of the Manufacturers and seal the sector producing it instead of stressing yourself to stop millions of sellers from selling it.

Just tell me what is hard with this approach?

Most of the things on ban in Nigeria are always on open display , sachet alcohol, sniper, firecrackers . Security agents will even be walking closeby and nothing will be done .

lol…wetin we the poor masses still dey take hold body…na thunder go fire una

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Source: https://punchng.com/Ban-on-sachet-alcoholic-beverages-still-in-force-NAFDAC

Why Dem no ban cigarettes join. Is it not causing acute health complications too.

Is there a ban on sachet alcohol? It's not reflecting anywhere. Sachet alcohol yapa everywhere. Infact new ones dey come out everyday.

JASONjnr:
This is a good development. We need to strategise ways to control the goods going into the market for consumption.


As it stands, anyone can just produce nonsense and use a branded label without proper checks...


We keep consumption nonsense. But we have a government and agencies created to keep us safe.

Using the word Strategy in a sentence does not mean you are making sense.

Dora akunyeli wannabe haha

Sometimes, I just think some of these policy makers are not alright...

Why not just close the companies manufacturing them, Abi them don comot address from the sachet?

Funny enough, ALL OF THEM have NAFDAC reg number

Thiisss satchet drinks are everywhere in the Country



Soo we still have nnafdac