By Francis Ogwo
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has warned looters to avoid consumption of looted drugs even as warehouses, stores, malls and other consumable stores have been raided by suspected hoodlums.
This advise was made by the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Mojisola Chrstianah Adeyeye, in the wake of stealing of drugs and other items from the agency’s Northwest zonal office in Kaduna
The Director of the agency’s Northwest Zone, Mr. Dauda Gimba, and other officials of the agency had taken the DG round the Kaduna office on an inspection of the damaged stores on Monday.
According to her, a great percentage of the stores drugs and drinks worth millions of naira were kept for destruction and not to be consumed while adding that the items are substandard, fake and could be harmful to the health if consumed.
In her words: “This is a rude shock to me. NAFDAC saves lives. Definitely, this is a setback and an invasion on our private space as an agency whose primary duty is to save lives by ensuring that substandard and fake drugs and other items are not allowed into the society.
“I am devastated because from what I have seen, this has nothing to do with the #EndSARS activities but hoodlums who took advantage of the situation to steal and cause destruction on property both personal and government-owned.
“The insurance company will come and access the extent of damage and pay for the destruction. But we may be forced to lay off workers, where it becomes impossible to meet up. These workers could be your brother, sister and so on. It is a very sad situation,” the DG concluded.
