NAFDAC Destroys N80m Illegal Drugs

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC), has destroyed counterfeit drugs worth over 80 million naira in Abuja recently.

The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, who was speaking in Abuja, says the agency is working relentlessly to clean Nigerian market of unsafe and unwholesome products.

Although the circulation of counterfeit drugs is said to have dropped from 19.6 percent in 2012 to 3.6 percent in 2015, officials of the agency are promising not to rest on their war against counterfeit drugs.
The NAFDAC boss further observed that the Agency will need support in the areas of surveillance and enforcement.

At the end of her speech, the agency's boss and other officials set the fake drugs on fire.
Some Nigerians has applauded the agency and suggested that this will go a long way to deter the importers of these fake drugs.

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