This is a shameful act by the NAFDAC (National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control) in Nigeria. This agency was created by the government of Nigeria to handle issues of fake products sold or being manufactured anywhere in Nigeria. However, the information available to Viewers Corner News revealed that a particular market in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria, which the NAFDAC assumed was selling fake drugs, was targeted. This led the agency to close down the market. This system of closing down all the shops in that market is completely wrong. The sad aspect is that the NAFDAC mandated all those who own shops in that market to pay the sum of seven hundred thousand naira each before their shops are reopened, which some of them have paid, and those who have not paid do not have access to their shops till today, as alleged. We had expected the NAFDAC agency to treat every case on an individual basis because we believe that not everyone in that market is selling fake drugs. Based on this, we are calling on the NAFDAC agency to open the businesses that they closed down while the investigations to find those selling counterfeit drugs in the market continue. But if NAFDAC fails to open those shops, then we would suggest to owners of those businesses to take NAFDAC to court. In this hard time in Nigeria, the NAFDAC should not be closing down people’s businesses without proper investigation. Things do not work that way; the people are losing money, including the government of Nigeria through taxes. When such a market in Onitsha, in Anambra State of Nigeria, is closed down for months without operation, it does not make sense in our opinion. So let the right thing be done.
Source: Viewers Corner News