The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control has burnt
down counterfeit drugs worth more than N85 million. Dr. Abubakar Jimoh,
its Director (Special Duties), who supervised the destruction of the
drugs, in a brief remark shortly before the activity, said that some of
them were voluntarily surrendered to the agency by their owners, after
realising that they were fake, substandard, unwholesome, or had expired.
He said that other drugs were mopped up by the agency’s surveillance teams in Plateau.
Jimoh said: “The counterfeiters would have made more than N85 million by
selling these poisons to you and I; happily, they are being destroyed.”
He vowed that NAFDAC would rid the nation of fake drugs, and described those engaged in them as “far worse than armed robbers”.
He said: “An armed robbery could attack you, take your money and leave
you, but the counterfeiters’ destruction is very massive because one
drug can wipe out a whole village.”
Jimoh said that such fake drugs had been found to be largely responsible
for the rising cases of diseases associated with liver, kidney and the
heart, and called for full support by all toward checking the menace.
He said that the agency had similarly destroyed counterfeit drugs worth
N100 million in Makurdi “in our quest to clean up the system”.
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