NAFDAC destroys fake drugs worth N100trn

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed fake, substandard, and falsified drugs seized during a recent operation in Onitsha and Aba.

The unwholesome pharmaceutical products were destroyed at the Anambra State Waste Management Agency’s dump site in Awka on Friday, following standard disposal procedures.

Professor Christina Adeyeye, NAFDAC Director-General, who supervised the destruction, stated that 100 containers of such products, valued at ₦100 trillion, were seized.

Represented by Dr Martin Iluyomade, Director of Southeast Zonal Operations, she said the quantity of banned psychoactive drugs found could destabilise an entire country.

Adeyeye noted that NAFDAC had realised the time had come to permanently end the circulation of falsified and substandard pharmaceutical products in Nigeria.

According to her, fake medicines lead to treatment failures, causing preventable deaths and severe economic losses, especially for…