Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has reopened the sealed Eziukwu Road Market in Aba, after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with its leadership with the promise not to make the place a safe haven for counterfeit products.
Truth Live News reports that NAFDAC officials from the Enugu regional headquarters of the agency, had on Monday, sealed and denied entry to shop owners and visitors, while investigating what it said was high level of adulteration of products by some traders using their shops as centres for manufacturing fake products.
According to the agency’s officials, the three day raid on the Eziukwu/ Cementry Road market was to flush out suspected manufacturers of counterfeit items and reaching an understanding with the leadership of the market towards checkmating its users activities, in the fake products manufacturing business.
Business activities at the market were disrupted with no fewer than 300 shops and business premises sealed while 15 fake products manufacturers got apprehended by NAFDAC officials.
A spokesperson of the traders’ association, Chukwuma Alutu, in a statement, said that top on the terms of the MoU, was an agreement for NAFDAC operatives to carry out similar raids in future without any prior notices to both the leadership and users of the market.