By ENYIM ENYIM

THE National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has uncovered an illegal drug factory in Onitsha, Anambra State, even as it seized fake drugs and equipment worth over N20 million in Onitsha.

Deputy Director of NAFDAC, Special zonal office, Mr Benson Kine told newsmen that the illegal factory had been functioning as a family cottage business.

Kine said the factory, following a tip-off by public-spirited individual, was discovered at a residential duplex on Commercial Avenue, Fegge, Onitsha, in the Federal Housing Estate of Fegge community.

He said NAFDAC and the police team apprehended a woman named (withheld) who claimed her husband owns the house and the illegal factory.

The NAFDAC Director said the woman’s husband had been at large for some time now abandoning his family after NAFDAC and the police team raided their house and confiscated the fake drugs and equipment.

According to him, “we are yet to get her husband, who she alleged owns the house and illegal factory as well as do the supply of the fake drugs and procures materials for their manufacturing. From available sales receipt recovered from them; they supply the products to Idumota Market, Lagos, Kano as well as Maiduguri in Borno State and they had been in the business for some years now. The suspect, her children and relatives have not found anything wrong in running an illegal and fake drug factory all these years.”

Kine said the suspects had been transferred to the agency’s investigation directorate in Lagos for further investigation and prosecution.

The fake drugs recovered are as follows: Minadex Tonic and Multi-Vitamin for Children – 100 cartons by 12 bottles by 200 mililitres and Merit Liquid Quinine – 17 cartons by 40 bottles by 200 mililitres.

Other are: Festdrine (Anti-malaria) – 16 cartons by 100 bottles by 100 mililitres; Glibebenclanide (Anti-malaria) – 37 cartons by 1000 tablets by 5 mililitres and Geofage 500 (Anti-Diabetic) – 70 cartons by 500 tablets by 500 militires.

The equipment included: three hot-air-gum machines for shrink wrapping, two cartons sealing machines, improvise vice device for printing numbers and a nylon sealing machines.

Other are: a full keg of chloroquine Forte, rolls of taper prove nylons, five sack filled empty pack of Merit Quinine and insert label containing fake NAFDAC numbers and manufacturer address.


Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/nafdac-uncovers-illegal-drug-factory-in-onitsha/

While reading this report, I wondered why any sane person would acquire hi-tech equipments only to produce low-quality drugs to kill fellow humans like him. Some people are just too pathetic and inhuman!

And yet we are quick to blame our leaders for corruption. This country is sick to the core!

Where is Bluetooth

It would ahve been better if these fake drug dealers were feeding us placebos than drugs we don't know. God help us

This country is effing scary! MEHN! Recipe for genocide all because of MONEY! I wonder why these people refuse to feed their families with these drugs?!

DEATH PENALTY, PLEASE.

i'll pull the trigger myself.

If we talk now them go say we done come. This thing is as terrible as Boko Haram.

This is wickedness. All in the name of making money!

Imagine people dying cos of malaria after spending money to buy such fake malaria drug?

Terrible!

I wonder how many died from taking these fake drugs.

Pure evil.

And then people wonder why many don't trust buying anything made in Nigeria.

Who wan die?

I see why Asians kill people that sell fake drug

Imagine a scenario when a poor mother buys drugs only to discover that it is the same drug that killed her child.

Wicked,

During my time as Electrical / Instrument Engineer in Leonamead at Aba, NAFDAC approved Tura Soap when our Lab Scientist mistakenly wrote the Caustic content of the soap to be 0.9 instead of 0.001

Chai, Nigerian would indeed miss Dr Dora Akunluyi

alj harem:

I see why Asians kill people that sell fake drug

Imagine a scenario when a poor mother buys drugs only to discover that it is the same drug that killed her child.

Wicked,

I hope you see what our biafran neighbours are doing to us;selling fake drugs to Yorubas and hausas in order to reduce their population.If I talk now,you will scream tribalism.Ibo people make una take am easy o .

ballabriggs: If we talk now them go say we done come. This thing is as terrible as Boko Haram.

we know where they come from but unfortunately,they sell the fake drugs to westerners and northerners ! Imagine,lagos and maiduiguri as if to exterminate them.

......and that is just one discovered out of several thousand of them. Shame.

i feel so sorry for this country it has come to a point where people have become so desperate for money that they are willing to do just anything. so so sad......

....crave 4 moni can make u do anyfin.Everyday 4 a thief & onli 1 dey 4 d owna of the houz.Wonder how many people ona don kill sef.Let dem face the ful arm of the law.

ballabriggs: If we talk now them go say we done come. This thing is as terrible as Boko Haram.

Why you go talk, mumu? No be una come fight make we join you in your one nigeria? Nama ffuckerr

Tabs2B: ....crave 4 moni can make u do anyfin.Everyday 4 a thief & onli 1 dey 4 d owna of the houz.Wonder how many people ona don kill sef.Let dem face the ful arm of the law.

dem suppose catch am first.
nigeria police: hahahahaha!

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NAFDAC shuts fake pharmaceutical factory in Kano
22.05.2009

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down a Kano-based pharmaceutical factory for engaging in the production of contaminated drugs.


The factory, New Bethel Pharmaceutical Limited, was sealed-off by NAFDAC regulatory officers for operating under poor condition and violating manufacturing practices by producing a Vitamin B complex heavily contaminated with microbial growth.


Acting Deputy Director in charge of Kano Special Zone of NAFDAC, Mr. Sariel, who led a team of Regulatory Officers to the Dakata-Kawaji factory in Kano, said among the offences committed by the pharmaceutical company were: “inadequate manufacturing equipment, poor record keeping, filthy water treatment facility, barely equipped laboratory for drug analysis, poor batch coding of products and untrained personnel”.


Mr. Sariel said that NAFDAC management had decided that the factory should be relocated to a new environment conducive for production of quality drugs.


Mr. Sariel called on well meaning Nigerians to always report any suspected case of fake, expired or contaminated drugs to the nearest NAFDAC office for appropriate action.

^^^what exactly is your point? #zeezh

I do not condone selling illegal drugs that is just straightout evil. My issue though is how quickly some idiots are to insult and blame all Igbos for the evil done by a few miscreats. But when it comes to Boko Haram blowing up Igbos all we hear is "What are those greedy Igbos doing up North". Keep it up you bloody BASTARDS, you will surely get yours.

NAFDAC should pls tell us hw to identify the original NAFDAC No.i jst bought one of the drugs(minadex multivitamin) they mention for my kids last nite,though am in PH.But cant risk it,throwing it away rite now.