The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC), has seized over 10- trucks, each carrying a 40- foot container of fake, expired, and falsified drugs at the Ogbo-Ogwu Bridge Head Market in Onitsha, Anambra State.
The operation which began on Monday, has exposed and confiscated substandard and adulterated drugs worth billions of naira.
According to NAFDAC, the market serves as a hub for repackaging and revalidating expired medicines with fake claims, which are later sold to unsuspecting consumers.
NAFDAC approval, detected using the agency’s scanning machines.
Several individuals were arrested for obstructing the raid, and NAFDAC officials rejected bribes totaling N135 million offered to halt the enforcement.
-9News Nigeria.
