The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Monday took over the Ariaria International Market, Aba, after uncovering huge quantities of unregistered and banned drugs.
Omoyeni Babatunde, the NAFDAC deputy director in charge of Enforcement and Federal Task Force, South-South/South-East, announced the takeover in an interview with reporters during the enforcement.
Mr Babatunde said the agency confiscated the unregistered and banned medicines at the Patent Medicine Section of the market.
He said: “Today, people are not in the market. We have taken over and we have been working from shop to shop but no arrest has been made yet,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that some of the items uncovered in one of the shops included a substance suspected to be the dreaded Crystal Methamphetamine (Mkpuru Mmiri).
The substance was wrapped like a cigarette with foils, bearing Epsom Salt, and hidden away in small cartons with Epsom Salt labels…
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