The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Nigeria’s regulatory body for food and drugs, has confirmed the arrest and detention of the producer of Baba Aisha herbal medicine, Salisu Sani.
Mr Sani’s detention was confirmed on Thursday evening by NAFDAC’s Director of Investigation and Enforcement, Francis Ononiwu, while appearing as a panellist on a Twitter space organised by PREMIUM TIMES and Dubawa to appraise the details of the newspaper’s report.
The development followed an investigation by DUBAWA and PREMIUM TIMES on the product sold to millions of Nigerians, which has now been found to be deadly.
Mr Ononiwu said Mr Sani was arrested and detained by the police when he visited the agency’s office in Abuja following the raid conducted on his company’s premises earlier conducted on Wednesday by NAFDAC and the arrest of two of his workers.
‘How Sani was arrested’
Mr Sani was said to have visited the agency’s headquarters in…
