Whistle-blower: NAFDAC uncovers N200m fake products in Ogun, Anambra

THE National Agency for Food and Drugs
Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has
uncovered fake and unregistered products
valued at over N200 million.
The products, confiscated through a whistle-
blower’s report, were stocked in a building at
11, Omotosho Crescent, off Ewedana Street,
Toll Gate, Ota in Ogun State.
The building also served as production outlet
for bitters with fake NAFDAC registration
numbers.
At a briefing in Lagos yesterday, Acting
Director-General of NAFDAC, Mrs. Yetunde
Oni, explained that the building is a bungalow
of five bedrooms, with two residential rooms,
while the other three, the parlour and the
kitchen were used for production of
unregistered, deceptive and counterfeit
products.
Oni, who was represented by the Director, Port
Inspectorate, Mr. Kingsley Ejiofor, gave the
name of the owner (withheld), adding that the
products were being produced in a dirty
environment by unqualified personnel.
According to her, empty plastic bottles, caps,
cartons and sticker labels of other products
were also found in the facility, while the
address on the labels of all the products were
fake.
Oni said the agency also raided Ogbaru Relief
Market in Onitsha, Anambra State, where they
discovered several shops used for the
production, distribution, sale and storage of
fake and counterfeit alcoholic and non-
alcoholic drinks of various popular brands
valued at over N200 million.
The drinks, she noted, were produced by
manual mixing in plastic buckets and filled into
bottles under unhygienic conditions.