https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ali7CnQ3J-s

Recall that NAFDAC had explained why it had to shut down markets

Peter Obi said "I have noted the mixed reactions- both positive and negative to my call for the immediate reopening of markets that were not involved in illegal drug trading.

Once again, this situation highlights why we continue to experience economic stagnation, and unproductivity in our nation.

When those who have never built or managed businesses - who do not understand how micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) operate - are in charge, they take actions that cripple legitimate businesses and stifle economic growth.

This is how we have continued to decline - where governance disregards the realities of everyday Nigerians.

The earlier we embrace the fact that small-scale businesses are a critical part of the economy, the better for us as a developing nation.

During my recent visit to Indonesia, I engaged with the Ministry of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and policymakers. They clearly demonstrated how Indonesia MSMES provides over 90% of the employment.

The Indonesian government provides committed support to ensure these MSME businesses thrive, offering access to reduced funding while ensuring that those who violate the law are duly persecuted and punished.

During my tenure as Governor, Anambra State was the first to seek a partnership with the Bank of Industry to secure special loans for MSMEs. A dedicated committee was set up to ensure that the loans reached those who truly needed them. We also facilitated the establishment of a Bank of Industry branch in Anambra to enhance access to funding.

When many states were banning motorcycle riders, a.k.a okada riders operations, on allegations that they were involved in criminal activities, I refused to follow suit because I understood the economic implications for small businesses. Instead, I intensified efforts to enhance their operations, creating an environment where small businesses could thrive while collaborating with their unions, and security agencies to weed out the bad actors.

Similarly, I ensured that certain categories of small businesses, such as wheelbarrow pushers, were exempted from paying taxes to ease their financial burden.

Today, entire markets are being shut down because of the actions of a few.

You do not cripple an Ogbo Ogwo market and surrounding markets for several days in the name of enforcement.

These are people struggling to survive in an already difficult economic environment, yet instead of providing solutions, the government is shutting down markets indiscriminately. This is not governance; it is economic sabotage.

Small businesses must be protected—not destroyed—if we truly want to build a productive nation.

I respectfully appeal once again that businesses not involved in the sale of fake drugs should not be shut down due to the huge implications of closing businesses that depend on daily profits to survive. A one-month closure will cripple many of them. We have witnessed similar situations in the past, where businesses reopened only to find that goods with short shelf lives had expired, resulting in huge losses.

Additionally, I like to advise that shop owners should be present before any searches are conducted on their premises to ensure transparency and fairness.

The same peter obi that accepted to be grand patron of association of fake drugs.

The loans you gave them is what they used to finance the illicit drug trade...

Let the govt do their job, you are not in govt

Lol

iamnotillicit:
The loans you gave them is what they used to finance the illicit drug trade...

Let the govt do their job, you are not in govt

yarimo:
The same peter obi that accepted to be grand patron of association of fake drugs.

I think say them carry you go celestia Imeko city for solutions what happened? Them go need to wash ur head for pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem because hmmmmm

This idiot is twisting what NAFDAC discovered in their raid if the market.

The market had 90% of its shops and whare houses that had been screened by NAFDAC having fake and expired drugs .


Obi is now telling you that the profit margin of these dubious merchants is more important than the general public health and safety.

Obi remains a fraud and a liar who will double down on all his gaffes because that's what he is - a charlatan claiming Saint.

Pity giiiiriiiigooory talks too much for a supposed leader of any group. Even the scriptures said something about briding one's tongue


Useless explanations from a very useless ex-Gov

iamnotillicit:
The loans you gave them is what they used to finance the illicit drug trade...

Let the govt do their job, you are not in govt

illicit drug trade in Chicago by bobo Chicago

OBI matter go soon kill some people. Always waiting for OBI to make a comment on every matter.

The fraud only remembers dealers in fake merchandise and fake drugs plus his beloved IPOB terrorist friends.

Here he is remodeling himself to be a socialist by defending criminals in that market but when he was governor he rolled out every anti people policies that he could such as increasing school fees for all state owned institutions for primary up to tertiary levels at over 300% while neglecting the welfare of teachers and lecturers in the employment of Anambra ministry of Education. At the same time, this fraud never built any new schools or saw it fit to renovate the existing ones that had become an eyesore. In the health sector, Obi implemented a policy of no work, no pay to force striking Medical practitioners to return back to work.

And what of the federal handouts that Anambra got in the 8ys of his maladministration? If he wasn't ferrying it in cash from Anambra using a convoy of State government vehicles compete with police security to his personal office in Apapa, Lagos , he was diverting it to his personal business portfolio and Pandora account.

How dumb can an entire region and stare be it to believe this incompetent charlatan and thief to be their long awaited Messiah ?

Same Obi who claimed to have since handedly invested public funds without setting up a board to oversee the funds and to which said investment is no longer traceable is who some fools want us to believe is the Messiah.

You went there to sympathize with fake drugs sellers

No amount of shalaye can make sense to us

Shame on you Peter Obi

fuckingAyaya:
I think say them carry you go celestia Imeko city for solutions what happened? Them go need to wash ur head for pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem because hmmmmm

u no get sense, we all can see through the madness of obi

Ugm closed the market for 8 weeks obi no talk even when it was closed for no reasonable reason but now government closed it for killing people by producing fake drugs n obi got his voice

fuckingAyaya:
illicit drug trade in Chicago by bobo Chicago

any evidence tinubu was caught with drugs?

ChiefJusticeFuc:
The fraud only remembers dealers in fake merchandise and fake drugs plus his beloved IPOB terrorist friends.

Here he is remodeling himself to be a socialist by defending criminals in that market but when he was governor he rolled out every anti people policies that he could such as increasing school fees for all state owned institutions for primary up to tertiary levels at over 300% while neglecting the welfare of teachers and lecturers in the employment of Anambra ministry of Education. At the same time, this fraud never built any new schools or saw it fit to renovate the existing ones that had become an eyesore. In the health sector, Obi implemented a policy of no work, no pay to force striking Medical practitioners to return back to work.

And what of the federal handouts that Anambra got in the 8ys of his maladministration? If he wasn't ferrying it in cash from Anambra using a convoy of State government vehicles compete with police security to his personal office in Apapa, Lagos , he was diverting it to his personal business portfolio and Pandora account.

How dumb can an entire region and stare be it to believe this incompetent charlatan and thief to be their long awaited Messiah ?

Same Obi who claimed to have since handedly invested public funds without setting up a board to oversee the funds and to which said investment is no longer traceable is who some fools want us to believe is the Messiah.

Igbos believe the same way anything goes in their region is the same way it goes elsewhere

Their useless n below average nitwit called obi is who they want to equate to jagaban

I will rather have a non Nigerian as president than any Igbo

I just hate them with passion, it's not even dislike but real hate

I will rather go for a non Nigerian than an igbo

ChiefJusticeFuc:
This idiot is twisting what NAFDAC discovered in their raid if the market.

The market had 90% of its shops and whare houses that had been screened by NAFDAC having fake and expired drugs .


Obi is now telling you that the profit margin of these dubious merchants is more important than the general public health and safety.

Obi remains a fraud and a liar who will double down on all his gaffes because that's what he is - a charlatan claiming Saint.

Have u been to ogbo ogwu market before? There is a building materials market inside there, there are other smaller businesses? You can shut down people selling building materials because of drugs people. There is what is called intelligence in every operation and obviously this lacks none.

Shutting down other busineeses who dont even know what is happening is criminal in itself on the part of NAFDAC. Where did NAFDAC get the power to close down building materials market?

You people should stop fooling yourselves. NAFDAC should apply intelligence in its operations as obviously it is lacking. Shut down only the shops that are perpetrators not innocent businesses.

Thia is akin to the nonsense the poluxe does anytime somebody is killed, they start mass raiding arresting innocent people.

Macphenson:


Have u been to ogbo ogwu market before? There is a builsing materials market inside there, there are other smaller businesses? You can shut down people selling building materials because of drugs people. There is what is called intelligence in every operation and obviously this lacks none.

Shutting down other busineeses who dont even know what is happening is criminal in itself on the part of NAFDAC. Where did NAFDAC get the power to close down building materials market?

You people should stop fooling yourselves. NAFDAC should apply intelligence in its operations as obviously it is lacking. Shut down only the shops that are victims not innocent businesses.

Thia is akin to the nonsense the poluxe does anytime somebody is killed, they start mass raiding arresting innocent people.

Sharap.

Majority of shops and merchants in that market are merchants of pharmaceutical products and so far, NAFDAC has said that over 90% of those dealing in pharmaceutical drugs are into fake and expired products.

If the police discover a hotel is knowingly having at any given time 90% of its guests
being kidnappers and armed robbers, will you condemn the police if they decide to seal off the hotel

helinues:
You went there to sympathize with fake drugs sellers

No amount of shalaye can make sense to us

Shame on you Peter Obi

How can Obi's stance, ever make sense to a supporter of backwardness?

PO, no need to explain to BATified BATists who supported darling daddy from back to back & topped it with a bullion van fraud

They are not intelligent to decipher intelligence & capability or efficiency

They are önly for nepa Bill certificate & fake certificate holders


Your explanation will make them hate you more because you are making sense to a whole lot of unBATified Nigerians

Mbanda:
How can Obi's stance, ever make sense to a supporter of backwardness?

Get a meaningful life and stop trolling me

It is pure stupidity to shut down a whole market because you discovered that a few traders were selling fake items. That amounts to throwing the baby out with the bath water

What you do is shut the shops found to be selling fake items, not the entire market. Why punish everyone because of the actions of a few?

It's pure stupidity

Mbanda:
How can Obi's stance, ever make sense to a supporter of backwardness?

Tell your obi that no one takes his useless comments serious anymore .

helinues:
You went there to sympathize with fake drugs sellers

No amount of shalaye can make sense to us

Shame on you Peter Obi

Hellnius

This is the reason peace will elude you the rest of life.

See you lie against PO, even though his first statement was self explanatory. You refused to comprehend anything he said despite his second statement

You see the hatred you have for PO & anything for our neigbours from the East will consume you.

You are here again to dish another propaganda, lies & deceit against a man öf Integrity.

No peace for the wicked

DatNiggaDaz:


Hellnius

Are some of you cursed with the daily trolling?

Make una go look for the missing meaningful life instead of wasting life away on this forum

gidgiddy:
It is pure stupidity to shut down a whole market because you discovered that a few traders were selling fake items. That amounts to throwing the baby out with the bath water

Who you do is shut the shops found to be selling fake items, not the entire market. Why punish everyone because of the actions of a few?

It's pure stupidity

Wait until the right legislation is passed that will end this your useless quackery and counterfeiting operation.

Laws will be passed and amended that will make it a criminal offense for any of your village touts to be in possession of any pharmaceutical drugs not meant for personal use .


A market that has virtually every drug merchant stoking up on fake and expired goods is what you and your fraud obi are soliciting on their behalf .
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yarimo:
The same peter obi that accepted to be grand patron of association of fake drugs.

You have lost it all

ChiefJusticeFuc:


Tell your obi that no one takes his useless comments serious anymore .

One of the supporters of backwardness spotted

helinues:


Are some of you cursed with the daily trolling?

Make una go look for the missing meaningful life instead of wasting life away on this forum

Helinues

You are insulting everyone & no one is crying to the Mods & your side MODS are pretending not to see your insults

See Helinues putting waste & life in thesame forum.

I am not stopping you from insulting Nairalanders. I like it

Helinues, you must desist from your hatred, tribalism & bigotry against PO with your lies & deceit

Bobloco:


You have lost it all

You forgot to tell him he's irredeemable. Hahahah

DatNiggaDaz:


Helinues

You are insulting everyone & no one is crying to the Mods & your side MODS are pretending not to see your insults

See Helinues putting waste & life in thesame forum.

I am not stopping you from insulting Nairalanders. I like it

Helinues, you must desist from your hatred, tribalism & bigotry against PO with your lies & deceit

Oya tell NL'S the justification for deliberately wasting your life away trolling me daily

Yoruba people understand the comment he made but they just want to use it as agenda and agenda must agend

You locked the drug complex/plaza,Fine but what business do they have locking the building material,Cement and motor spare parts section?

It’s just like they found human skull in a house in ibadan and locked the whole Estate,now where that is done except in the lawless country called Nigeria?

If it was Ipob that shut down the Whole Market for a Month
Peter Obi would have no problem with it at all

helinues:


Oya tell NL'S the justification for deliberately wasting your life away trolling me daily

Helinues

If you have not being hopelessly wasting your life can you state one progress each of darling daddy & bobo Chicago ?

Afterall you deceived SW muslims & Northerners with MU-MU ticket, before then you deceived them with a nepa Bill certificate: the body odour terrorist.

There is no escape route for you. You can never control the narratives here on Nairaland.

I am here for Helinues