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Services Front Page Back Page Advert Rates Subscription News Home National International Business News Abuja Reports Sports Politics Sun Girl Editorial Editorial Issues Letters Opinion Columnists Community Standard Guestbook View Guestbook Sun Chatroom   Features Apettit Arts BlockBuster CEO Magazine Celebrity Fashion City Sun Crime Watch Covert Choice CyberSun Enterprise Everyday Heroes Exquisite Property Fashion & Celebrity Fashion & Beauty Favourite File Health Magazine How I write Life Style Living Mafia Series Man in the street Man in the pulpit Managing a Law Firm Me & My God Media People Money Motoring Power Game Romance Romantic Faction Senior Citizen Showtime Smoking Guns Sun Splash Sunlight of Islam Travels Window of the world Window on widows Woman of the Sun Women in Business Women & Me Videoscope Weekend Sun Saturday Sun Sunday Sun Weekend Sports Weekend Cartoons Company Profile About Us Management Contact Us   NAFDAC blows hot in Kano By Ibrahim Barde, Kano Friday July 30, 2004   National Index The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has reiterated its resolve to stamp out all fake and illegally manufactured drugs and warned that offenders run the risk of being prosecuted under the relevant laws of the country, Director-General of the agency, Dr. Dora Akunyili told Daily Sun in Kano recently. According to the Director-General, all marketers of drugs are advised to register immediately in order to meet the December, 2004 deadline. "Already, regulatory officers of NAFDAC have started a nationwide surveillance of pharmacies, patent medicine stores, open markets and other sales outlets, preparatory to the enforcement exercise," Akunyili said. Dr. Akunyili said the agency under her leadership will not extend the dealine for drug registration and dismissed the insinuations that the registration process was aimed at making money for the agency. She pointed out that “from now on, any bus or vehicle, conveying drug hawkers will be impounded by NAFDAC and the driver of the vehicle and the hawker would be prosecuted under the relevant narcotic laws of Nigeria," adding: "it is regrettable that Nigeria remains the only country in Africa where drugs are still hawked in buses, motor parks and in the streets." She said the recent NAFDAC consultative meeting in Kano with stakeholders was organized to tackle myriad of problems facing the local manufacturers in the country. Akunyili averred that NAFDAC was prepared to help indigenous manufacturers grow to enviable levels of their foreign counter-parts but insisted the rules must be followed. Meanwhile, Alhaji (Dr.) Ado Bayero has commended the activities of the agency, particularly the stringent steps taken against fake drugs. The Emir made the commendation when the Director-General paid him a courtesy visit to seek his royal blessing and support.       HOME | ABOUT THE SUN | SPORTS | POLITICS | NEWS | COLUMNISTS | CONTACT US I ADVERT RATE © 2004 THE SUN PUBLISHING LTD. This service is provided on The Sun Newspapers' standard terms and conditions in accordance with our Privacy Policy. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material and other inquiries, Contact Us.

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