Policemen attached to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control, NAFDAC, on Wednesday caught three men stealing items earmarked for destruction at the Okediya Dumpsite, Sagamu, Ogun State.
The three men, Kabiru Amar, Yusuf Ahmed and Mohammed Ibrahim, were nabbed carting away cartons of unwholesome spaghetti.
Kingsley Ejiofor, Director, Investigation and Enforcement Directorate, who represented NAFDAC’s Acting Director-General, Mrs. Yetunde Oni, told newsmen at the site that the thieves would be appropriately dealt with.
“In spite of the fact that we were at the dump site destroying counterfeit and expired products, some miscreants still had the audacity to steal from the destruction exercise site”, he said.
“This is to show the extent to which people are willing to go, to make money from the sales of expired products. They have been caught and will not be spared.
“Some of these expired products destroyed were voluntarily handed over by compliant companies in the country.
“Other products destroyed included fake and counterfeit drugs, prohibited substandard and expired food products, cosmetics, and other regulated products.
“These were seized by the Investigation and Enforcement Directorate of NAFDAC, from manufacturers, importers, and distributors in Lagos State and environs.
“The agency has continued to aggressively pursue the goals of ensuring that only genuine medicines and wholesome foods of the right quality are imported, exported, manufactured and distributed.
“Surveillance and enforcement operations at our ports, borders and identified routes used by smugglers, have been intensified and this has led to increased seizures of fake regulated products smuggled through our land borders”.
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