NAFDAC parades 4 over N59bn fakedrugs importation

National Agency for Food and Drug
Administration and Control, NAFDAC,
weekend, paraded four suspects over the
importation of counterfeit drugs worth
N59 million.

While parading the suspects before
newsmen, Director-General, NAFDAC, Dr.
Paul Orhii, said he was more embarrassed
by people losing their lives due to fake
drugs than flimsy claims of those he
described as ‘fake drug abettors’ on
failure of technology in identifying
fake products.
The names of the suspects were given as
Mr. Paul Ogbonna, Mr. Celestine Eruokwu,
Mr. Ifeanyi Edeh, and Mr. Ozoemena Odo.
Orhii said that Mr. Celestine Eruokwu
was a generator dealer, but was arrested
for importation of 90,000 doses of
counterfeit Maloxine tablets.
recent findings indicated that
counterfeiters of medicines now hide
under the shadows of other businesses to
carry out their activities.
He explained that
He said: “Based on an intelligence
report that Eruokwu was in possession of
counterfeit Maloxine tablets, operatives
of NAFDAC Investigation and Enforcement
Directorate raided his house.
“They discovered and impounded
counterfeit Maloxine tablet (90,000
doses) 600 packets x 150 x Stabs, with
an estimated market value of nine
million naira.”