{"id":152434,"date":"2025-02-23T13:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T12:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/fake-drugs-were-investigating-those-involved-will-face-law-of-nigeria-nafdac"},"modified":"2025-02-26T23:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T22:28:59","slug":"fake-drugs-were-investigating-those-involved-will-face-law-of-nigeria-nafdac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fake-drugs-were-investigating-those-involved-will-face-law-of-nigeria-nafdac","title":{"rendered":"Fake Drugs: We\u2019re investigating, those involved will face law of Nigeria \u2013 NAFDAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, have said an investigation is currently ongoing to find out those who are involved in fake and substandard medicines in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed by Martins Iluyomade, Southeast zonal director of NAFDAC, at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Iluyomade spoke to journalists shortly after leading officials of NAFDAC to uncovered prohibited drugs at the Onitsha Bridgehead Drug Market in Anambra Sate on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, those involved in fake drugs in Nigeria will face the law of land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still investigating. Because almost every body is denying they don\u2019t know what [owners of the fake and substandard medicines]. No body know their neighbour anymore,\u201d Iluyomade said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuddenly nobody know their neighbour who owns this [fake drugs]. But we are sending a message across that it cannot be business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a mandate to make sure that anybody who is involved in these [fake drugs] is made to face the law of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NAFDAC had shut down the entire Bridgehead Market in Onitsha after the discovery of fake drugs at the Ogbo Ogwu section of the market.<\/p>\n<p>The agency later disclosed on Saturday that about 11,000 shops have been sealed and 40 people arrested in its ongoing nationwide clampdown on substandard and counterfeit medicines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, have said an investigation is currently ongoing to find out those who are involved in fake and substandard medicines in the country. This was disclosed by Martins Iluyomade, Southeast zonal director of NAFDAC, at the weekend. 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