NAN reports that 19 drug hawkers and shop owners were arrested during the two operations, and are currently undergoing investigation at the agency’s head office in Abuja . Mr Umar Ahmed, the Assistant Chief Regulatory Officer, Investigation and Enforcement Unit, Federal Task Force, NAFDAC , said that the raids were part of efforts to sanitise the country of unwholesome goods and counterfeit drugs.
Ahmed said that the raid, which is also going on nationwide, followed complaints from stakeholders like the Department of State Services, DSS. “We have raided not less than 55 hawkers’ outlets in Kpaduma in Asokoro District of the FCT, and Nyanya, some of these hawkers absconded, but we were able to arrest nine of them, and equally arrested 11 of them on Thursday.
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