Security team had recovered two rifles, live cartilages, a matchete, and other weapons
In the midst of the ongoing crackdown on fake and counterfeit drugs, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) disclosed on Wednesday that its security team had recovered two rifles, live cartilages, a matchete, and other weapons that had been concealed by unknown individuals at the drug market in Niger Bridge Head, Onitsha, Anambra State.
This information was disclosed by Professor Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Development of the African Diaspora (NAFDAC), during her address to correspondents at the market.
She was taken aback by the discovery, which she perceived as an attempt to assassinate Dr. Martins Iluyomade, the Director of the agency’s Southeast zone. Dr. Iluyomade conducts daily debriefings at that location.
Iluyomade, who represented Adeyeye, also disclosed that their security team successfully thwarted two attempts by specific criminals to enter the Onitsha-based stores where they had stored the narcotics they had recovered.
Furthermore, they were able to apprehend two suspects in connection with this incident.
“With prompt interventions of our security, we saw and recovered dagger, machetes, two guns and rifles
“All other nights, we have arrested people who try to break in and do one thing or another in this market. They are in custody and volunteering useful information.”
She assured that certain areas of the market would be reopened this week while they commence the next phase of the exercise.
Adeyeye praised the leadership of the markets for their effort to collaborate with them during the operations.
Approximately fifty trailer loads of counterfeit and substandard pharmaceuticals that were found in the market have been relocated to a more secure location so that additional action may be taken, as stated by her.