Following the mind boggling seizure of two 40ft trucks of substandard drugs
intercepted by the Federal Operations Unit, FOU, of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS,
the Director of Investigations, National Agency for Food, Drugs, Administration
and Control, NAFDAC, Mr. Ejiofor Kingsley, has said that importers of fake and
substance drugs into Nigeria will get life imprisonment once the National
Assembly approves a bill by the agency seeking for such punishment.


He disclosed this in a chat with Sunday Vanguard , during the inspection of the
Customs warehouse at Ikeja, where the Customs Area Controller, CAC, of the
Unit, Comptroller Mohammed Uba Garba, handed over 1,442 cartons of drugs
seized by his officers through intelligence network in Lagos.

Kingsley also the Chairman of Taskforce on counterfeiting drugs said, “Now
15years imprisonment or a fine of 500.000 is the current punishment for such
offence, and it is not severe enough because taking fake drugs is like giving
people poison. Imagine if the officers of FOU had not intercepted this huge
quantity of substandard drugs, the dangers innocent Nigerians will be exposed
to in buying such drugs. At present, we have over 60 cases fake drugs related
issues in court. In Port Harcourt recently we had similar seizure of substandard
drugs. In 2017 alone, we have recorded seizures of fakes drugs worth over
N11billion. You can see the huge quantity and the health implications involved
in this deadly act”.

Also speaking, the CAC said, “The seizure of the fake drugs was made possible
through the resilience of our officers who foiled the antics of smugglers
notwithstanding their methods of concealment. This shows the commitments of
CGC Ali Hameed and his management team in continually repositioning the
Service for greater effectiveness. Influx of fake drugs is a deadly trend that must
be taken seriously because millions of lives of Nigerians are involved”.

Sunday Vanguard observed that the substandard pharmaceutical products
concealed in different cartons include Tramadol 120mg, Diclofenac Potassium
tables 50mg made from India and many other drugs. The items were fully
loaded in trucks with registration number RRU 513 XA, LSR 99 XK and
container number MSKU 9883956. The method of concealment looked so
sophisticated and would require a thorough search to detect the real contents.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/importers-fake-drugs-get-life-sentence-nafdac-director/

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Nightmare for the developers!

Following the mind boggling seizure of two 40ft trucks of substandard drugs
intercepted by the Federal Operations Unit, FOU, of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS,
the Director of Investigations, National Agency for Food, Drugs, Administration
and Control, NAFDAC, Mr. Ejiofor Kingsley, has said that importers of fake and
substance drugs into Nigeria will get life imprisonment once the National
Assembly approves a bill by the agency seeking for such punishment.

na real wa o!

Executed abroad
Life imprisonment at home.

Dem won finish these people?

bad maket for.......

Evablizin:
bad maket for.......

ritualist

OrestesDante:


Nightmare for the developers!

afonjazzy how many u don import?

Kashbwoyjnr:
afonjazzy how many u don import?

What are you importing?

the moment a Igbo read this news....

I only op my people from the other side read this..