The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, have labeled the Onitsha Bridgehead Drug Market the headquarters of distribution of substandard and fake pharmaceuticals in the country and even in African sub-regions. This was disclosed by Martins Iluyomade, Southeast zonal director of NAFDAC, at the weekend.
Iluyomade spoke to newsmen after he led officials of NAFDAC to uncover prohibited drugs at the Onitsha Bridgehead Drug Market in Anambra State on Saturday. According to him, officials of the agency seized two trailers loads of fake and substandard medicines that were hidden inside plumbing material shops. 'We worked on intelligence, this section is a plumbing section and normally it has nothing to do with pharmaceuticals,' Iluyomade said.
We thought it was going to be a small thing within few hours today but you can see that our work is even though we heard that some people are trying to plan anything but we advise them not to do that because this is a federal government project and the federal government is right behind what we are doing and it's of the safety of all Nigerians.' He added, 'Nigerians have cried for a long time.
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