Janet OgundepoThe National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, in its ongoing enforcement operation at the Idumota open drug market in Lagos State, has discovered unregistered narcotics and counterfeit GlaxoSmithKline medicines stored in toilets. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the agency shared photos and videos of the seized products, including injections, painkillers and antibiotics. The post read, “In the ongoing enforcement operation at the Idumota open drug market, NAFDAC has uncovered more alarming products, including unregistered narcotics, counterfeit GSK medicines, and vaccines stored in toilets.
”On Tuesday, the agency also posted that during an enforcement exercise in Idumota, its officials seized “banned drugs such as Analgin, vaccines meant for cold chain storage, oxytocin for maternal health, improperly stored outside the cold chain and donated medical products.”In one of the videos, one of the officials holding several packs of Kiss Condom said, “These condoms are donated USAID of UNFPA condoms that expired since 2022. So it is revalidating and putting them into KISS packaging materials and extending the dates to 2027.
So what you find in KISS all over the market are not KISS condoms, they are counterfeit versions of the expired donated condoms.”In a recent interview with Channels Television, NAFDAC’s Director General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, discussed the progress in the ongoing Open Drug Market enforcement exercise and addresse.
