The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has clarified that the ongoing raid in Aba, Onitsha and Lagos open drug markets is an enforcement Operation aimed at protecting public health and rid the country of falsified and substandard medical products.

Director General of NAFDAC, Mojisola Adeyeye who disclosed this while briefing State House Correspondents in Abuja, on the recent enforcement operation across the country’s three major open drug markets—Onitsha, Aba, and Lagos, revealed that the raid resulted in the seizure of 87 truckloads of banned, expired, and substandard medical products, including USAID and UNFPA-donated antiretroviral drugs and male and female condoms.

She called on the National Assembly to expedite action on the amendment of NAFDAC ACT, which seeks to include Life Sentence and Death Penalty for crimes Committed under the agency’s Acts.

According to the NAFDAC DG, the seized consignments of banned, expired, unregistered, substandard and falsified products valued at about one trillion naira will be destroyed publicly in each of the locations after the exercise. Adeyeye assured that the markets will be reopened after the successful completion of the enforcement operations.

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