NAFDAC has
impounded confectionery valued at about N2.5 million at the Ogbaru
Relief Market, Onitsha, Anambra State.
NAFDAC operatives who visited the
market on Tuesday also closed down 12 shops filled with confectionery
consisting mainly milk candies for children.
The Public
Relations Officer of the agency, Mr. Anslem Okonkwor, said the
impounded confectionery were substandard and not certified and
registered by NAFDAC.
He said,
“The raid came as a result of complaints made to us that people are
bringing into the market confectionery, which NAFDAC had not certified
and approved for human consumption.”
A Chief
Regulatory Officer of NAFDAC, Mr. Joseph Idowu, who led the raid, said
they had a herculean task getting the traders to cooperate.
He said, “We were unable to even arrest
one of these unscrupulous traders to serve as deterrent to others due
to negative activities of the market leadership here.“One of them could have called the fake product dealers and ask them to escape. However, four of the traders have been reported to us,” Idowu said.
He said the uncooperative attitude of the confectionery market leaders was unlike the one NAFDAC has been getting from the Bridge-head Drug Market, Onitsha, where the market leaders sanitise the market by themselves.
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