… Puts Value of Seized Counterfeit Drugs at over N1 trillion
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has called on the National Assembly to make law prescribing death penalty or life imprisonment for individuals involved in the sale of fake and counterfeit drugs.
The Director-General of the agency, Mojisola Adeyeye, observed that such stringent measures are necessary to hold perpetrators accountable for their actions, given the alarming prevalence of counterfeit products in circulation.
Adeyeye who spoke on recent nationwide operations, revealed that the total volume of fake drugs seized so far is valued at over N1 trillion.
She told State House correspondents on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, that the agency had successfully confiscated consignments of banned, expired, unregistered, and falsified medical products.
The NAFDAC Director-General also said the seized items would be publicly destroyed in each of the locations where they were confiscated.
Adeyeye described the ongoing clamp down on dealers of fake and counterfeit drugs as purely an effort to protect public health and rid the country of falsified and substandard medical products.
