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NAFDAC Destroys Fake, Expired Drugs in Rivers State to Safeguard Public Health

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has carried out a large-scale destruction of substandard and falsified medical products at the Rivers State Waste Management Authority (RIWAMA) Dumpsite in Aluu, Ikwerre Local Government Area.

The exercise, aimed at ridding the South-South region of harmful and counterfeit health products, involved the disposal of contraband drugs and other unwholesome materials collected across six states. The items, which had been collated since Thursday, were transported to the dumpsite for proper destruction.

Speaking at the event, the South-South Director of NAFDAC, Chukwuma Oligbu, who represented the agency’s Director-General, emphasized NAFDAC’s commitment to protecting public health.

“The products being destroyed during this exercise include substandard and falsified medical products, unwholesome processed food products, unsafe cosmetics, counterfeits, and other expired NAFDAC-regulated products seized from manufacturers, importers, and distributors. Also included are damaged and expired products voluntarily handed over by compliant companies, NGOs, the Association of Community Pharmacists (ACPN), and trade unions,” Oligbu stated.

He urged the public to remain vigilant and report suspicious pharmaceutical activities, stressing the importance of collaboration between NAFDAC, pharmacists, law enforcement agencies, and industry stakeholders to combat the circulation of fake drugs.

The destruction exercise was carried out in partnership with security operatives and other relevant agencies.

As flames consumed the counterfeit and expired drugs, NAFDAC reaffirmed its resolve to safeguard Nigerians from the dangers of substandard medical products, ensuring the safety and efficacy of regulated consumables across the country.

Source: The Bureau Newspaper

My state Ogun is the most purest state in Nigeria 🇳🇬

Good

The amount of damages them don cause people, nor be wetin mouth fit talk.

Very wicked things!

Where did they get the substandard products from?

Na omi Igbo owns most of the goods.
Imagine Biafra as a nation, what would people there be consuming?

Thank God, hobi is not the president.

Alliswell248:
Na omi Igbo owns most of the goods.
Imagine Biafra as a nation, what would people there be consuming?

Thank God, hobi is not the president.

Destroying our goods won't stop us from making billions as always.

Igbo kwenu 🦁

They could have convert it to money and give me the cash. My life Will never remain the same

Are Rivers now igbo

Good

Everyone wan be like Dora Akinyuli

Very good

This is just the beginning

iPod ® nuisance

Worth N4.7billy.

Where people dey see dis bar sef to run illegal games. Daaaamn

We miss Dora Akunyili

Fake drugs have killed our people finish

Ordinary malaria you go treat and treat and treat, e no go go

Herbs sef better pass drugs these days

christejames:
My state Ogun is the most purest state in Nigeria 🇳🇬

the head mining capital?

Ggg

No wonder they are supporting Fubara because they see him as simp weakling who will not touch them with their get rich quick with criminality syndrome.

Imagine our industrious son alias developers my nwanem runing N4.5Bilion fake drugs cartel in Rivers alone. Rivers people una dooh oo

All produced by shenedu, shebuso, shidi, shiamaka, Okoro, Okoye and Usodinma





Please I have a question bothering me,in heaven are we going to walk naked or they will sow uniform for us?

Kudos to the operatives of NAFDAC for their efforts in arresting those criminal elements

Millions of lives has been saved from these drug burst alleluia🙏

christejames:
My state Ogun is the most purest state in Nigeria 🇳🇬

Do you still have a skull

They deserve firing squad

Editorialtimes:
NAFDAC Destroys Fake, Expired Drugs in Rivers State to Safeguard Public Health



Source: The Bureau Newspaper

Destroying fake and expired drugs is good, but what about those behind it? If no one is arrested or jailed, the same people will keep bringing in harmful products. NAFDAC needs to go beyond just burning these drugs—perpetrators should face serious jail time. That’s the only way to truly protect public health and restore confidence.

Anytime you hear anything fake, just know that our brothers from the East are involved. I wonder how many people they have sent to hell through fake products. They all want to be billionaires by all means without considering who will suffer for it.

christejames:
My state Ogun is the most purest state in Nigeria 🇳🇬

U mean the skull mining state?

How did they arrive at N4.6 billion? Any fake product does not have any value at all.

OBIDIENTS DEVELOPERS handwork .

Jayhome24:
No wonder they are supporting Fubara because they see him as simp weakling who will not touch them with their get rich quick with criminality syndrome.

Imagine our industrious son alias developers my nwanem runing N4.5Bilion fake drugs cartel in Rivers alone. Rivers people una dooh oo

learn how to read before you embarrass yourself in public

People don’t even read beyond the headlines,
Majority of The drugs were VOLUNTARILY handed over to nafdac immediately they expired by pharmaceutical companies and pharmacies across the 6 South-South States. (Rivers, Bayelsa, Edo, Delta, Cross-River and Akwa Ibom)

It’s not as if one man or a few people were found with all those drugs. It’s mostly legit companies that handed their expired drugs to Nafdac.

Meanwhile when Nigeria go leave backwardness behind? Isn’t there a less harmful way to burn these medicines without creating soot and such huge open fires and harmful smoke that may have adverse effects on the environment and people living nearby. Like this smokeless hospital waste incinerator

Setting fire to certain medications can create toxic fumes, skin rashes, and when rain falls some people fetch rain water to cook, bath and wash with, which can lead to something else. Because the soot from the medications just burnt are still in the atmosphere. Nafdac needs to improve this is 2025 for God’s sake. They can get 1 of these machines for each geopolitical zone and schedule destruction of these medications once a month or once every 3 months so it doesn’t pile up so much.

6 geopolitical zones = 6 machines
6 machines X ~5,000,000 naira
= ~30,000,000 naira.

Nafdac budget for 2024 for “staff welfare package” alone was 6,670,000,000 naira that’s 6.67 billion naira

Anyone who is against this is an enemy of the country; or rather A CONFIRMED WITCH