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Fakers of NAFDAC registration numbers busted in Lagos, Edo raids

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A group of criminals suspected to be fakers of NAFDAC registration numbers have been busted following various raids on their hideouts in Lagos and Edo states by men of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

According to the Acting Director-General of NAFDAC, Mrs. Yetunde Oluremi Oni, while addressing a press conference, the arrests were effected following an intelligence report.

Mrs. Oni said the report by the agency’s Pharmacovigilance and Post-Marketing Surveillance Directorate led them to a facility suspected to be producing herbal medicine using fake NAFDAC registration number.

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Speaking through the Director Investigation and Enforcement, Mr. Kingsley Ejiofor, the Acting DG said: “During interrogation, one of the suspects arrested in the company claimed that the product was duly registered with NAFDAC and even tendered registration certificate to the investigators. But further investigation revealed that the NAFDAC registration certificate was fake.

“Mr. Yahaya, in collaboration with two others, Mr. Abubakar Ibrahim a.k.a Lamido and Idris Adamu (Prime Suspect), Mr. Idris Adamu, based in Sokoto, was said to have designed the NAFDAC certificate using a computer, printed and way billed it to Mr. Abubakar Ibrahim, a.k.a Lamido, in Kaduna, who filled all necessary information and signed.

“He further confessed to have received N100, 000.00 from the N150, 000.00 given by the client”. Oni said further investigation was ongoing and that the case would be prosecuted.

 

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  1. JOHNSON PETER

    September 24, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    Sincerely it’s GOD that can save us from what we consume, recently I bought Gala and pure water and the pure water was having bad odour as well as impurities of which there was a nafdac number inscription on it, I knew it was a fake nafdac number. How do we put a check on this? Because so many people have died in the process of consuming all this

    • seyi jelili

      September 24, 2017 at 1:37 pm

      Our health is in jeopardy and that’s why I hardly eat outside

    • Animashaun Ayodeji

      September 24, 2017 at 7:01 pm

      Even the ministry of health is not standard, why won’t there be fraudsters faking NAFDAC numbers?

  2. Balarabe musa

    September 24, 2017 at 12:40 pm

    I won’t forget the role Dora Akinyuli played in combating fake drugs and food commodities during her time, how I wish we could have another Dora

    • seyi jelili

      September 24, 2017 at 1:40 pm

      Dora will never be forgotten so soon, she was the Napoleon of her time

  3. Abeni Adebisi

    September 24, 2017 at 6:58 pm

    Na wa oo.. These fraudsters want to finish Nigeria finally, by the time people start consuming fake drugs and death rates increased, what will they now gain? They are really heartless

  4. Animashaun Ayodeji

    September 24, 2017 at 7:00 pm

    The situation of the country led people to this, if the country was better, no one would think of giving fake NAFDAC number , knowing they can be victims anytime

  5. Anita Kingsley

    September 24, 2017 at 7:21 pm

    When the country is bad, many fraudulent acts will happen. There are more fraudsters yet to be caught in the medical field, the government should keep fishing them out for the betterment of the country

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