The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed goods worth N326 million seized from different parts of Benue, Kogi, Plateau, Kwara, Niger, and Nasarawa states.
Speaking during the exercise in Lafia, the Director General of the Agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye said that the goods included chemicals, food items, and drugs.
Represented by Mr. Francis Ononiwu, the Agency’s Director, Investigation and Enforcement Directorate, the DG said that the exercise was a way of breaking the chain of distribution of counterfeit goods in the country.
Adeyeye said that the agency, by its establishment Act Cap LFN, 2004, was saddled with the responsibility to regulate and control the importation, exportation, manufacture, advertisement, distribution, sale, and use of food, drugs, and medical products.
Also, the North Central Zonal Director of NAFDAC, Pharm. Mohammed Shaba explained that the destruction was a routine exercise, adding that the products were mopped up from five states within the zone.
He said that most of the violators have been prosecuted with some serving prison terms and others paying fines.
Shaba added that the agency was resolute and would not spare any violator of the regulated products.
