Fake Drugs Uncovered At Beji Market In Minna

 
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration Control (NAFDAC) has stated that those who specialise in selling fake and adulterated drugs have invaded local markets in Niger State.

To check this, the most prominent of the market near the state capital, Minna, the popular Beji Market, was yesterday raided and drugs of assorted forms were confiscated by the Agency.

Niger State Coordinator of the Agency, Mr. Dadi Mulak, who led the raid said those selling the drugs to unsuspecting public were merchants of death, saying that it was discovered that drugs were even sold and measured like grains in an open market.

He disclosed that in Beji village market, large quantities of various dangerous drugs were found on display for unsuspecting buyers and were capable of killing many if not checked.

Mulak declared: “We regard them as merchants of death and the cartel members sell the fake drugs like tomatoes in these markets. In some markets, the fake drug dealers sell Paracetamol tablets in ‘mudu’ measurements to the villagers”.

While saying that the situation is pitiable and disheartening, he wondered why the fake drug dealers have decided to make local markets their target.

With the upsurge of the fake drugs in circulation in the rural market, he stated that the Agency has decided to step up surveillances in village markets to check circulation and sales of fake drugs.