The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says its discoveries at the Idumota, Ariaria, and Onitsha drug markets can ruin a nation.

The agency has been cracking down on fake and banned medicines in major markets across the country, seizing large consignments of illegal and adulterated drugs.

Speaking on Friday during a press briefing in Lagos, Mojisola Adeyeye, NAFDAC director-general, said its personnel seized up to 80 to 40 feet truckloads of drugs from the Onitsha and Aba markets.

“What we found during our enforcement operations in Idumota, Aba and Onitsha open drug markets can ruin a nation and reduce the quality of life of Nigerians,” Adeyeye said.

“If a patient with diabetes or hypertension takes some of the drugs we evacuated, such a person or people can die easily with what we found.”

Adeyeye, who said the agency destroyed about 27 to 40 feet truckloads of medicines discovered in Idumota market, noted that the counterfeit drugs could “reduce the quality of life of Nigerians”.

The NAFDAC DG said that although the enforcement operations have ended, the agency would not relent in its efforts to curb the sale of fake drugs in the country.

“In Onitsha and Aba, we evacuated close to 80 40-feet truckloads of drugs from the markets and various warehouses where drugs were stored without windows,” she added.

“We discovered 12 truckloads of tramadol and four truckloads of codeine syrups that were banned for treatment some years ago in the plumbing line, fashion line and wood section in the market.

“We have already destroyed 27 40-feet truckloads of drugs we evacuated from Idumota market.”

cenaman:
Agbado traders

Peterobiisathie:


https://www.thecable.ng/nafdac-the-drugs-we-found-during-enforcement-operations-can-ruin-a-nation/

merits:
Yes we all know them because they live fat on people's detriment and predicament.

Katakata10:
Igbos!

tnerro1:
Na dem dem, I no call name oo😂😂

id4sho:

Obidient traders

uvie66:
Ibos don't have conscience, money must be made anyhow

FBIBOT:
Just don't fall sick.... Stay healthy bcoz even fake paracetamol can be deadly as a sniper

Peterobiisathie:
Here is one of the reasons why our life expectancy is reducing year by year

It's really unfortunate.

Just imagine undergoing a major operation and the anesthesia given is a fake drug.

Those beasts are animals honestly.

Good people of Nigeria, we can't continue this way. What can we do?

Katakata10:
Igbos are worse than fulanis.

Shebi the educated fulanis are against the bad behaviour of the non-educated ones but you see Igbos, the rich, poor, old, young, male, female all think alike

They will support that crime as long as it's committed by their tribesman

uvie66:
Ibos don't have conscience, money must be made anyhow

Tjra:
No be lie.













It's really unfortunate.

Just imagine undergoing a major operation and the anesthesia given is a fake drug.

Those beasts are animals honestly.

4tomandchi:
Dr. Dora will be proud wherever she is. These people cut her life short because of how she was exposing them. Credit must be given to president Tinubu for this achievement.

God bless Nigeria

Katakata10:
Igbøs should have a separate continent.

They don't deserve to live with human beings