The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed over eleven thousand shops and arrested forty individuals in its ongoing nationwide clampdown on fake and substandard medicines.
Briefing journalists on Saturday in Lagos, NAFDAC Director-General, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, stated that the enforcement had been planned for over a year as a covert operation.
Adeyeye revealed that over twenty trucks of substandard drugs were evacuated from various locations in Aba, at least thirty trucks were seized in Onitsha, and twenty-seven trucks were removed from the Idumota market.
NAFDAC began enforcement operations at the Idumota open drug market, the Ariaria drug market in Aba, and the Bridge Market in Onitsha on February 10.
It noted that three markets, which distribute over 80 per cent of medications nationwide, were targeted to eliminate falsified and unregistered drugs.
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