₦airaland Forum

Attack On NAFDAC Officers At Plumbing Material Market At Head Bridge Onitsha

Sequel to credible intelligence obtained from concerned members of the public regarding the connivance of drug counterfeiters from the Head Bridge Drug Market Onitsha and the Executive members of the Plumbing Material Market Association Onitsha in the diversion, concealment and storage of substandard and falsified medical products at the plumbing material market; on Friday, 12th July 2019 the officials of NAFDAC visited the offending warehouse for immediate evacuation of the substandard and counterfeit products and packaging materials.

The Contingent of NAFDAC officials and Police officers were attacked and pelted with stones, bottles, packaged water and plumbing items by a mob under the watch of the executive members of the Plumbing Material Market Association Head Bridge Onitsha.

However, the NAFDAC team were able to evacuate limited quantity of the counterfeit Anti-malarial, Antibiotics, Sildenafil Citrate, including Tetanus Toxoid stored in a warehouse with temperature of over 40oC.

NAFDAC’s mandate is to safeguard the health of Nigerians. Storing cold chain drugs such as vaccines or injections that are supposed to be stored at below 4oC at a temperature as high as 40oC would have damaged the drug and subject the person that will receive it to danger that could result in death.

Similarly, other drugs stored at this high temperature will compromise the health of the population and result in fatalities. Counterfeiting of drugs subjects the population to treatment failure and early death. Members of the families of the counterfeiters are included in the population, that is, no one is exempted from the consequences of substandard, falsified and counterfeited medicines. Therefore, protect your family from dangers of falsified medicines by reporting any suspicion of fake medicines to 0800-1NAFDAC (0800 162 3322) or to the nearest NAFDAC office to you.

NAFDAC hereby warns that no stone will be left unturned in dismantling the operations and networks of counterfeiters of drugs as well as the traders whether in the Plumbing Material Market or anywhere who aid and abet the storage, concealment and distribution of substandard and falsified medical products.

NAFDAC ………safeguarding the health of the Nation!!!

Director General

Igboblog:
Tension As NAFDAC Officials, Policemen Escape Lynching In Onitsha Market

There was tension yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra after officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control and policemen escaped getting lynched during an enforcement exercise, Igbere TV reports.

Igbere TV reports that the incident happened at Head Bridge Drug Market, Onitsha, to be precise.

NAFDAC made this known in a statement by its Director-General, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, that the combined team of officials and policemen had visited the market sequel to credible intelligence obtained from concerned members of the public.


According to the agency, it had received information regarding the connivance of drug counterfeiters from the market and the executive members of the Plumbing Material Market Association Onitsha over the diversion, concealment, and storage of substandard and falsified medical products at the plumbing material market.


However, an attempt to apprehend those found culpable as well as ensure the seizure of the items led to NAFDAC officials getting stoned.

The statement reads,

“Officials of NAFDAC visited the offending warehouse for an immediate evacuation of the substandard and counterfeit products and packaging materials.

“The contingent of NAFDAC officials and police officers were attacked and pelted with stones, bottles, packaged water and plumbing items by a mob under the watch of the executive members of the Plumbing Material Market Association Head Bridge Onitsha.

“However, the NAFDAC team were able to evacuate a limited quantity of the counterfeit Anti-malaria, Antibiotics, Sildenafil Citrate, including Tetanus Toxoid stored in a warehouse with a temperature of over 40oC.”

The agency, which is charged with the mandate of safeguarding the health of Nigerians, noted that storing cold-chain drugs such as vaccines or injections that are supposed to be stored at below 4oC at a temperature as high as 40oC would have damaged the drug and subjected the person that would use it to danger that could result in death.

“Counterfeiting of drugs subjects the population to treatment failure and early death.

“Members of the families of the counterfeiters are included in the population, that is, no one is exempted from the consequences of substandard, falsified and counterfeited medicines. Therefore, protect your family from dangers of falsified medicines by reporting any suspicion of fake medicines to 08001NAFDAC or to the nearest NAFDAC office to you.”

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Source : http://igberetvnews.com/831998/tension-as-nafdac-officials-policemen-escape-lynching-in-onitsha-market/

Anambra traders deny attacking NAFDAC officials

Emmanuel Ndukuba
August 1, 2019

Plumbing materials dealers in Onitsha, the commercial hub of Anambra State, on Wednesday, denied involvement in the alleged attack on officials of the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

Chairman of the association, Ebuka Efuobi, made this known in Onitsha while addressing newsmen, and denied any knowledge of attack in the market.

There had been accusation and counter accusations following the attack on the NAFDAC officials who were in the market on a tip off to inspect a warehouse stacked with suspected fake and adulterated drugs.

Efuobi said his members were not drugs dealers and therefore had nothing to do with officials of the agency, saying, “l am not aware that officials of the agency came to my section. I was not informed and nobody sent for me when they arrived.

“Nobody was beaten to my knowledge and NAFDAC should know that we deal on plumbing materials and not drugs. If they have any issues with the drugs they should ask the drugs dealers popularly called Ogbo Ogwu.”

The chairman said they had a meeting where they agreed that nobody should be allowed to park drugs in the market.

“We have security here. Maybe they didn’t inform anybody when they bashed into the market, went straight to the warehouse and begin to break it,” he added.

Another member of the plumbing dealers, who preferred anonymity, accused the drug dealers of masterminding the assault on the agency officials.

“The truth is that drug dealers are witch-hunting themselves. Who told them there were drugs parked in a warehouse here at the plumbing market?

When contacted, chairman, caretaker committee, Onitsha Patent Proprietors’ Medicine Dealers’ Union Bridge Head Market, Anthony Ezeoba, told journalists he had no time to talk to anybody on the issue.

Konquest:
NAFDAC Arrests 40 Persons Linked To Sale Of Unregistered Medication

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p42uD4eHGtk?si=Qc2hc-4wIVGJMfxK
TVC News Nigeria · Feb 23 2025

Konquest:
NAFDAC Arrests 40 Persons Linked To Sale Of Unregistered Medication

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p42uD4eHGtk?si=Qc2hc-4wIVGJMfxK
TVC News Nigeria · Feb 23 2025

crestedaguiyi:
When will the fake document market in Lagos be closed.

When will the smuggling route in ogun and oyo state be closed.

naptu2:
People have asked why NAFDAC shut the entire Bridge Head Market? They ask why the agency closed shops that are not involved in selling drugs and why they refused to allow anyone into the market. They also ask why soldiers are involved in the operation.

In 2019 NAFDAC got a tip off that illegal drugs were being wharehoused and sold at the plumbing materials section of the market. They went to the market with policemen to search the specific shops that were suspected of being used to store illegal drugs (they didn't close the market, they went to inspect the specific shops).

The NAFDAC officials and policemen were attacked and mobbed by traders. They had to retreat without carrying out their mission.

However, NAFDAC continued to receive information that illegal drugs were being sold in various parts of the market.

The National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, gave NAFDAC security cover and troops cordoned off the market to ensure that nobody could mob or attack the NAFDAC officials. NAFDAC officials and policemen went into the market and in the presence of the chairman of the plumbing materials section, they found that shops in that section were being used as wharehouses to store illegal drugs.

NAFDAC is currently searching other parts of the market and they have announced that they will allow traders to come into the market in batches, open their shops for NAFDAC to search and then the traders will be allowed back in if nothing illegal is found in the shop.




https://nafdac.gov.ng/attack-on-nafdac-officers-at-plumbing-material-market-at-head-bridge-onitsha/

tuoyoojo:
Na wa o

So this place has been notorious for selling fake drugs since 2007

I would be better for collective punishment to be given to everyone in that section of the market including the chairman of the market for turning a blind eye to what they may be aware of

just like what happened in pantaka in abuja when those iron condemn was selling stolen man holes to someone and everyone got punished

Everyone becomes an automatic police agent against such nefarious action and would quickly notify the authorities if something as sinister as fact drugs are being sold in the market


Do they have any idea how dangerous fake drugs are, its equivalent to blood money. People who are sick using there hard earned money to get drugs only for them to turn out to be fake and many losing their lives in that process

Tflex01:
Peter Obi go say na lie.