Officials of the National Agency for Food
and Drugs Administration Control (NAFDAC)
were yesterday physically assaulted and
locked up inside stores by staff of Senator
Ifeanyi Ararume under the Senator’s
influence.
According to THE CITY REPORTERS ,
following
various complaints of food poisoning from
consumers who patronize the Abuja based
complex exclusive store belonging to the
Imo State born All Progressive Congress
(APC) political stalwart, officials of NAFDAC
stormed the complex but were prevented
from doing their lawful duties.
Trouble was said to have started when
NAFDAC officials who have been on
surveillance invaded the premises and
discovered unregistered herbal teas with
therapeutic claims and various ranges of
other unregistered cosmetic products on
display at the expensive store.
According to some eyewitness accounts, the
NAFDAC operatives who were on their
routine duties were assaulted and
subsequently locked up inside the stores to
prevent them from carrying out their lawful
assignment of screening the products on
sale.
Irked by the treatment of its official,
NAFDAC ordered the closure of the popular
and expensive Abuja shopping complex.
But few hours later, however, the complex
was reopened in what one of the regulatory
agency’s staff who craved anonymity
claimed was an order from above.
“It is so annoying that this is happening
under APC government who has been
preaching zero tolerance on corruption,” he
said.
Nafdac is yet to officially react to the
incident as at the time of filing this report.
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