National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has finally unsealed the Eziukwu Road Market in Aba, after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with its leadership which promised not to allow people use the location as fake products manufacturing centres. NAFDAC officials from the Enugu regional headquarters of the agency, had on Monday, swooped on the market, sealing it and denying entry to shop owners and visitors, while investigating what it said was high level adulteration of products by some traders using their shops as centres for manufacturing fake usable items.
According to the agency’s officials, the three day raid on the Eziukwu/ Cementry Road market was to flush out suspected manufacturers of counterfeit items and reaching an understanding with the leadership of the market towards checkmating its users activities, in the fake products manufacturing business. Business activities at the market were disrupted with no fewer than 300 shops and business premises sealed while 15 fake products manufacturers got apprehended by NAFDAC officials. A spokesperson of the traders’ association, Chukwuma Alutu, in a statement, revealed that top on the terms of the MoU, was an agreement for NAFDAC operatives to carry out similar raids in future without any prior information to both the leadership and users of the market.
