One Hundred truckloads of fake drugs seized in Lagos, others – NAFDAC

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control said it evacuated over 100 truckloads of substandard, falsified, and banned medicines and narcotics from Idumota market in Lagos State, Onitsha market in Abia state, and Aba market in Abia state, in six weeks.

This was disclosed in a press statement on Sunday signed by the Resident Consultant of the agency, Sayo Akintola.

The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof Moji Adeyeye, said if the substandard and banned medicines were allowed in circulation, they could ruin the nation by reducing the quality of life of millions of Nigerians.

Adeyeye made the remarks in Lagos on Friday at a briefing while giving an update on the unprecedented enforcement exercise carried out in the three markers where unregistered, banned, expired or medicines with other violations worth over a trillion naira were confiscated.