The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has intercepted counterfeit malaria drugs worth over N1.2bn in Lagos, intensifying its crackdown on substandard medicines across the country.
In a statement posted on its official X handle on Friday, the agency said it seized 277 cartons of counterfeit and unregistered Malamal Forte malaria drugs in a warehouse in the Ilasa-Oshodi area of the state.
The fake medicines, which were disguised in cartons labelled as Diclofenac Potassium 50mg, were illegally imported from Shanxi Tianyuan Pharmaceuticals Group in China and falsely declared as spare parts.
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, reaffirmed the agency’s resolve to rid the country of fake and substandard medicines.
She said, “With the full support of the Presidency and the Federal Ministry of Health, NAFDAC remains committed to eliminating counterfeit drugs and protecting public health.”
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, reaffirmed the agency’s resolve to rid the country of fake and substandard medicines.
She said, “With the full support of the Presidency and the Federal Ministry of Health, NAFDAC remains committed to eliminating counterfeit drugs and protecting public health.”
Jesus!Eweleke 🙆😳😳
ReplyDeleteNo wonder🤔
Everyday kidney failure and unnecessary death
Na only God go judge them
Great move 👍. Nafdac you do this one, too much of fake malaria drugs outside, you will be treating malaria you won't see any changes. May they not harm our health in this country.
ReplyDeleteI use only made in Nigeria drugs for now. Atleast the fake will be minimal.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how these fake manufacturers are able to sleep at night.
ReplyDeleteGood job NAFDAC.
Let them burn it all 💔. How can someone be treating malaria every eke market day ehhh.
ReplyDeleteThe developers who claim to be supporting their candidate that will rescue Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteNa so the rescue go happen with this una behaviour?
Imagine going all the way to China to pay someone to manufacture fake drugs that you will bring back home and sell to your own people o. Jesus!!!
And you now label is as spare parts.
Biko, that Southeast port should come soon so these things can be shipped directly to the East
😁na dem - developers, billionaires, onwa, odoziaku
DeleteIf you know how many times, that I have treated malaria this year. Lord have mercy.
ReplyDeleteThis explains why people keep treating malaria from time to time like it was Vit.C
ReplyDeleteMay God please save us from wicked people.
Well done, NAFDAC. Keep doing more. They will all be exposed by God grace.
Good job NAFDAC. Please intensify more to crack down on the cartel bringing fake drugs and other health related items into the country.
ReplyDeleteSee Dora die, NAFDAC follow her.
ReplyDeleteHow do you mean? Are you blind to the good work are successors are doing? Pls applaud them. Do you know battling the fake drug cartels is like fighting terrorists and bandits? Find out how many lives of staff of NAFDAC and police are lost monthly.
Delete16;09 it's a cartel oo. You will be shocked the billionaires behind it. Offcource, they use their money and influence to remove/assas.sinate anyone trying to stop them. May God help us and deliver us from these evil.
DeleteYou all pray before taking medications
Only God can be trusted 💯
Anon 16:09, they are deceptive and are good at gaslighting knowing they frustrated Dora when alive and have frustrated any moves by her successors to sanitize the system.
DeleteThey have frustrated Moji Adeyeye lying that NAFDAC collected fines as if you dare talk about fines without serious jail time with US FDA that is if you dare manufacture fake or adulterated meds in the US.
The same group want to be taken serious when they talk about a Nepal-type revolution in Nigeria. Hello… such a revolution will also clean out ALL makers, fakers, mixers, importers etc of fake drugs, food, drinks, consumer goods, spare parts etc before the corrupt politicians. . Which is most adult SE men! Drug faking, adulteration, etc has KILLED more people in Nigeria directly than bad politics has.
Think about it, you cannot buy or take any medication in Nigeria and be confident it is authentic, probably the ONLY country on earth in that category due to the aversion of some people to LAWS and REGULATIONS.
Many SE traders cannot succeed or survive where there are laws, rules and regulations; where they are religiously enforced. Their livelihoods/ money making ability depends on chaos, on lack of regulatory enforcement, on things not working well, yet want to dominate the other 200+ ethnicities who mostly don’t have such deeply held culture.
The fake drugs were seized at ONNE port in the SS (brought in from India) while they shout that Lagos ports are the only ones because agenda must agend.
The hard conversation that Nigerians are about having is that what some gaslight the rest as “development” is actually “destruction” of the country’s entire landscape from health to foods to automobile. A morally bankrupt group should first cleanse itself before pretending to be better than anyone else.
If you sell fake brake pads and folks die in accidents, do you think your “money na water” is not blood money? How many accidents in Nigeria are due to fake car parts? How many deaths and organ failures are due to fake, substandard drug and wine and drink imports or local manufacture? Faking and importing fakes are not victimless crimes. They amount to mass murder.
No wonder we have resistant malaria where you will spend fortune to buy malaria drugs but I'll still be sick.
ReplyDeleteWell done NAFDAC.
ReplyDeleteThis evil people needs to start been sentenced to death.
So true
ReplyDeleteAnd it's not only malaria drugs ooo
1.2bn. imagine the quantity. It means almost all the pharmacist and chemist will have it. Imagine the number of deat.hs, tumors or diseases that will surge as a result of its consumption
ReplyDeleteHow do these people sleep at night?
Conscience long since been laid to rest.
DeleteThey sleep, party and brag; they have NO conscience and worship money. They thrive on chaos and will not succeed in a regulated environment. That is why they rarely make it to any verified global lists of business successes where majority play by US, EU, UK regulations.
DeleteSome folks won’t make it in a functioning Nigeria yet are loud in wanting a faux revolution, shouting “hate”when called out. Nobody hates anyone but I hate what the obsession with making money out of misery and death by done have turned Nigeria into.