The arrest followed a tip-off which led the agency to discover a twin three-storey building in Kirikiri, both of them stocked taking into account imported items long expired and the expiry dates postscript out of date to enable sale.
The buildings reportedly connect Julf Ventures Nigeria Ltd and was first discovered in March 2017 in the in the by now arrest was madethis Saturday.
The Director-General of SON, Osita Aboloma, who was represented by the Director of Inspectorate and Compliance, Bede Obayi, briefed reporters once the arrest. Channels reports that Aboloma promised that the agency would ensure they trace the unprofessional products that had already left the warehouse and celebrated the Lagos State Government for its prompt submission in sealing taking place the building.
We acted in reason to the severity we era-lucky from competently-meaning Nigerians. You can see the volume of expired products here and imagine their implications concerning our organization in terms of health issues. When somebody buys expired cream, what does it perform? You are applying cream that the alert ingredient had bearing in mind and that may cause reactions upon the skin.
We concurrence Nigerians that we will carry out psychoanalysis and ensure that the products that have left the warehouse to rotate shops every on peak of the country are properly traced and withdrawn from circulation. Due to the child support of count regulatory agencies and the Nigeria Police Force, we were lighthearted to discover two subsidiary warehouses belonging to the associated company based upon a tip-off, Aboloma said.
NAFDAC'S Director of Investigation and Enforcement, Mr Kingsley Ejiofor, condemned the feat of churning out sloppy product to the public and described it as an illicit trade by unethical Nigerian importers. He continued to commend SON and the Police for arresting the importer and asked for increased preserve in tackling the importation of doing and slapdash goods into the country.
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