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Going with what the traders in Ogbogwu are saying, you can only know that this exercise is just an effort in futility. It will even make the problem worse....Don’t Miss Out! CLICK HERE TO KEEP READING..>>
Some two weeks ago, NAFDAC started a lockdown of major medicine markets in Aba, Onitsha and Lagos. The aim of this exercise was for the agency to eradicate fake and illegal medicine in the markets.
But this exercise has been marred with lots of irregularities that one will keep asking if Nigeria will ever get it right. We are not talking about the inability of these businessmen and women to access their shops.
We are talking about the accusations of these tax forces stealing from the shops they are searching for. The worst is that the owners of those shops are absent when their shops are open.
In Lagos, it was alleged that the medicines these people confiscated were even NAFDAC-approved medicines. Then you ask yourself this question. Why are they doing this?
These traders left huge amounts of money in their shops and you are destroying the keys without them being present. If they look for their money, who will they report to? Nobody.
It looked like some people were targeting these traders because most of them were Igbo people. They will actually send many people back to poverty.
Someone told me the operatives are even selling some of the medicines they sold. Nigeria is simply being shut down.
By the time you are done, those impoverished will go back to crime and produce more fake medicines.
There is nothing this country has ever gotten right. Nothing.
You are not affected, or have a relative or friends this is affecting, so it will not concern you.
Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher and Activist, 2025.
