My people, this one na olosho matter wey dey happen for Onitsha, as dem don destroy fake and expired drugs wey cost over ₦265 million! Na the chairman of Ogbo-ogwu Drug Market, Chukwuleta Ndubuisi, na him come stand gidigba and hand over the goods to NAFDAC.

No be small thing as NAFDAC dey ramp up their efforts to fight this counterfeit drug wahala. Ndubuisi talk say dem don catch this fake drugs from different time, some even last year, while dem dey carry out some serious enforcement actions.

He no just dey do this thing anyhow, my people, he get strategy wey he don put in place since the time of late Prof. Dora Akunyili, wey sabi do her own thing well for NAFDAC. “We no fit allow people dey sell things wey go just kill our people,” he talk.

Dem don establish task force for the market wey dey watch as hawks to catch any dealer wey wan play with people’s lives. Ndubuisi don notice say smugglers dey still find ways enter market from outside to bring in fake drugs, but he dey gree say since they start this move, matter don dey improve small.

But wait o, as he dey talk this matter, the man don talk say dem don dey threaten his life! He no gree shade anything. “Dem don threaten me, wan remove my leadership so that dem fit operate freely,” he talk like person wey dey vex. “But no matter wetin dem do, I no go fit compromise!”

He gree say make all those traders wey dey sell fake medicines turn new leaf, because e fit affect even their own family. “Crime no dey pay. You no fit sabi who go take the fake drugs you dey sell—e fit be your own brother or sister,” Ndubuisi don shine eye give them.

Pharm. Louis Madubuattah, wey be NAFDAC Coordinator for Anambra State, confirm say dem carry over 400 cartons of expired drugs come give dem and dem go lock am for warehouse till dem go destroy am because na de law.

Madubuattah no just confirm the matter; him talk say NAFDAC dey run some serious awareness campaigns to stop expired drugs from gree waka leg for market. “We dey happy say Ogbo-ogwu market leadership don take steps to rid dem market of this rubbish,” he gree, as he dey hail dem for the work.

This handover wahala na clear signal say market authority and NAFDAC don dey collaborate well to stop counterfeit drugs, as una sabi say fake medicine fit kill person for Naija.