The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control on Wednesday in Abuja arrested five persons for selling counterfeit cosmetics.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports the arrest was made in Garki and Wuse in an enforcement to curb substandard goods.
Speaking with newsmen after the enforcement, Embugushiki-Musa Godiya, the NAFDAC Head of Investigation and Enforcement, Federal Taskforce, said the arrested persons would be investigated.
Godiya said that NAFDAC would work to ensure that fake cosmetics and other counterfeit products were completely wipe out of the country.
He said the agency had been investigating some of these counterfeit cosmetics following an intelligence report, adding that some of these products were illegally imported into the country in spite of security at the borders.
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He said: “NAFDAC is present in all the ports of entry of the country, but with the nature of our borders, these smugglers will always find a way to beat the system that the government had put in place.
“That is why if they escape from the port or borders, we go to the market and to all the places, gather intelligence reports, go after them and confiscate these products for possible prosecution.”
The NAFDAC investigator said that the market value of the seized cosmetics is N35 million, adding that the control agency would continue the investigation to unravel the level of involvement of the suspects.
Godiya said that after investigation, the management of the agency would take its regulatory action, which probably may be prosecution of those suspects for the crime committed.
He called on Nigerians to collaborate with NAFDAC to fight counterfeit products in the country.