Thursday, May 16, 2024 - The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) arrested five persons for selling counterfeit cosmetics.
The arrest was made on Wednesday, May
15, at the Garki and Wuse axis, during an enforcement exercise.
Speaking with newsmen after the
enforcement, Mr Embugushiki-Musa Godiya, NAFDAC Head of Investigation and
Enforcement, Federal Taskforce, said the arrested persons would be
investigated.
Godiya said that NAFDAC would work to
ensure that fake cosmetics and other counterfeit products were completely wiped
out of the country.
He said that the agency had been
investigating some of these counterfeit cosmetics following an intelligence
report, adding that some of these products were illegally imported into the
country, in spite security at the border.
He said: “NAFDAC is present in all the
ports of entry of the country, but with the nature of our borders, these
smugglers will always find a way to beat the system that government had put in
place.
“That is why if they escape from the port
or borders, we go to the market and to all the places, gather intelligence
report, go after them and confiscate these product for possible
prosecution."
He said that the market value of the seized
cosmetics is N35 million, adding that NAFDAC would continue investigation into
the issue, to unravel the level of involvement of the suspects.
Godiya said that after investigation, the
management of the agency would take regulatory action, which probably may be
prosecution of those suspects for the crime committed.
He called on Nigerians to collaborate with
NAFDAC to fight counterfeit products in the country.
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