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NAFDAC OFFICIALS, POLICEMEN ESCAPE LYNCHING IN ONITSHA MARKET (READ DETAIL)
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Afnews Editor
Jul 20, 2019
Officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug
Administration and Control and policemen escaped getting lynched during an
enforcement exercise at Head Bridge Drug Market, Onitsha, Anambra State.
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NAFDAC said in a statement by its Director-General, Prof.
Moji Adeyeye, that the combined team of officials and policemen had visited the
market sequel to credible intelligence obtained from concerned members of the
public.
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According to the agency, it had received information
regarding the connivance of drug counterfeiters from the market and the
executive members of the Plumbing Material Market Association Onitsha over the
diversion, concealment, and storage of substandard and falsified medical
products at the plumbing material market.
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However, an attempt to apprehend those found culpable as
well as ensure the seizure of the items led to NAFDAC officials getting stoned.
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The statement read in part, "Officials of NAFDAC visited the
offending warehouse for an immediate evacuation of the substandard and
counterfeit products and packaging materials.
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"The contingent of NAFDAC officials and police officers were
attacked and pelted with stones, bottles, packaged water and plumbing items by
a mob under the watch of the executive members of the Plumbing Material Market
Association Head Bridge Onitsha.
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"However, the NAFDAC team were able to evacuate a limited
quantity of the counterfeit Anti-malaria, Antibiotics, Sildenafil Citrate,
including Tetanus Toxoid stored in a warehouse with a temperature of over
40oC.ÔÇØ
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The agency, which is charged with the mandate of
safeguarding the health of Nigerians, noted that storing cold-chain drugs such
as vaccines or injections that are supposed to be stored at below 4oC at a
temperature as high as 40oC would have damaged the drug and subjected the
person that would use it to danger that could result in death.
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It said similarly, other drugs stored at this high
temperature would compromise the health of the population and result in
fatalities.
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The statement read further, "Counterfeiting of drugs
subjects the population to treatment failure and early death.
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"Members of the families of the counterfeiters are included
in the population, that is, no one is exempted from the consequences of
substandard, falsified and counterfeited medicines. Therefore, protect your
family from dangers of falsified medicines by reporting any suspicion of fake
medicines to 08001NAFDAC or to the nearest NAFDAC office to you.ÔÇØ
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NAFDAC subsequently warned that no stone would be left
unturned in dismantling the operations and networks of counterfeiters of drugs
as well as the traders whether in the Plumbing Material Market or anywhere who
aid and abet the storage, concealment, and distribution of substandard and
falsified medical products. (Punchng)
