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The development is contained in a statement signed by the agency’s Resident Media Consultant, Sayo Akintola, in Lagos on Sunday, specifying that a Federal High Court, sitting in Kano last Friday sentenced a 41-year-old man, Innocent Oparah, to three years imprisonment with an option of N200,000 fine for endangering lives of innocent consumers through the circulation of fake drugs.

Represented by Dr. Ali Ahmad, former Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly at the 7th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Northern Broadcasting Media Owners Association in Kano on Monday, Saraki, who spearheaded the 8th Senate’s 2017 Roundtable on the ‘Drug Use Crisis in Nigeria,’ stated that the country must adopt tougher measure to discourage those who want to turn the country into a drug hub in West Africa.

Following this, a statement signed in Lagos by the Resident Media Consultant to NAFDAC, Sayo Akintola, quoted the Director General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye as warning the general public, particularly consumers of Ponmo against the activities of some unscrupulous businessmen and traders who are selling industrial animal hides as food articles.

Ogbodo was arrested by the Investigation and Enforcement officers of NAFDAC in his residence at 18, Abagana street, Fegge, Onitsha, Anambra State where falsified Maldox (Sulfadoxine and Pyrimethamine), a brand of anti-malaria tablet manufactured by a registered Nigerian Pharmaceutical Company, was recovered from him.