The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, on Thursday destroyed fake, substandard and expired drugs estimated at N1 billion at Shagamu Local Government dump site in Ogun State.
The Acting Director-General of the Agency, Mrs. Yetunde Oni, represented by the Director, Investigation and Enforcement, Kingsley Ejiofor, described drug counterfeiting as an act of economic sabotage and terrorism against public health.
Oni said the exercise was to prevent the re-introduction of such products in the market by unscrupulous people.
While urging Nigerians to be watchful of drugs, food and other regulated product they buy, especially during the Easter season, Oni said some of the products were seized by the agency’s Investigation and Enforcement Directorate in Lagos and its environs while others were handed voluntarily to NAFDAC between December 2014 and last month.
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