The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has evacuated 140 tonnes of expired and unregistered drugs from Aba to its office in Anambra.
Deputy Director in charge of Investigation and Enforcement, NAFDAC Federal Taskforce, South South and South East states, Mr. Omoyeni Babatunji, made this known on Saturday.
Briefing newsmen on the agency’s operations in Aba, Babatunji said more than 178 drug samples drawn from the operation would be subjected to laboratory investigation.
He further said the 140 tonnes of expired drugs were removed from a warehouse in Umummeje, Umuocheala in Osisioma Local Government Area.
While noting that the 140 tonnes excluded products from the Ariaria International Market drug shops, the deputy director disclosed that NAFDAC also uncovered two warehouses located on No. 269, Sam Mbakwe Road, formerly Faulk’s Road, Aba.
He said staff of the agency found that the suspects took away some cartons of the expired but re-labelled drugs after they uncovered the place and went to bring in security.
The NAFDAC deputy director who took newsmen round the two freshly uncovered warehouses of expired products, emphasized that recent discoveries of expired products being re-labelled and sent to markets has renewed the urgent call for a drug warehouse Wholesale Control Centre, CWC in Aba.
