NAFDAC Seals Three Warehouses In Ekiti According to the NAFDAC Coordinator for Ekiti State, Stella Dosumu, the closures were prompted by various violations aimed at deceiving unsuspecting consumers.
The Round Table says that this action coincides with a warning from the agency’s Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, who revealed that there will be no refuge for individuals she referred to as ‘merchants of death’ in the country, superlatively those engaging in the illegal trade of systematized products.
In a statement released in Ado Ekiti on Friday, Dosumu noted that the NAFDAC DG is committed to diminishing fudge, reduplication, and substandard medicinal and food products from society, which led to the closure of the three major food warehouses in Ado Ekiti.
The closures, she disclosed, happened on Wednesday, March 11, 2025, due to significant violations of the Agency’s regulations.
“The action, went after a tip-off by a concerned citizen that illegal re-bagging of rice was being done in some warehouses, after which the NAFDAC team conducted surveillance activities at the implicated warehouses.
“At the time of visit, the team validated the information, given by the whistleblower. The highlights of findings said that several bales of empty bags of popular local and alien rice were in the warehouses, while already bagged heterogeneous brands of rice, containing sewing and sealing machines, were found in the warehouses,” the statement noted.
It appended that the managers at the warehouses refused to say the source of the rice that was being rebagged, and hence, the status of the rice cannot be ascertained.
“It is the dangerous trend that is capable of compromising the health of the consumers, as well as misleading labelling information.
“In the interim, the bails of the empty bags of the distinguishable brands, found in the warehouses, were mopped, samples of the rebagged rice were taken for laboratory clustering, and the warehouses have been closed down, pending the outcome of the laboratory discloses, before further regulatory actions can be determined.
“The public is hereby reassured that the agency will remain to chase her mandate of safeguarding the health of the citizens, by ensuring both drug and food safety in Nigeria,” the statement appended.
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Published 3/14/2025