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Drug Hawkers Are Merchants of Deaths – NAFDAC

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Published: June 14, 2025
Last updated: June 14, 2025
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has cautioned Nigerians against patronizing drug Hawkers, describing them as merchants of death.

The Director-General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye, who was represented by the Director of Chemical Evaluation and Research, Pharmacist (Mrs) Ngozi Onuorah stated this at a sensitization campaign in Awka in Anambra State.

She warned members of the public to desist from buying drugs from hawkers.

She said: “NAFDAC over the years has employed a multifaceted approach including enforcement activities and pharmacovigilance, carrying out raids, arresting people and prosecuting them, but the problem of drug hawking has not abated.

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“That is why this time around we are intensifying public sensitization campaign trying to approach it from another perspective of equipping Nigerians with the right and appropriate information because knowledge is power.

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“To that extent, in the last one and half months, NAFDAC has embarked on effective community sensitization, market to market including motor parks to take the campaign to the grassroots.”

She further said: “Even though they say old habits die hard but we believe that there are certain habits that are injurious to public health. So going to buy drugs from hawkers, the person is literarily killing him or herself.

“For instance, drugs are not an article of trade like other commodities that people can hawk anyhow. No. It has to be stored under a particular storage condition and temperature and it has to be sold in licenced premises, pharmacies and patent medicines stores.

“It should not be hawked, it should not be traded in motor parks or buses, it should not be taken up and down by traders,”

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Explaining the consequences of drug hawking, Prof. Adeyeye said: “If the drugs were efficacious originally, by the time they are being carried about under rain, the heat of the sun and other poor storage conditions, they would lose their potency, efficacy and safety such that over time they become outright poison which can damage vital organs of the body such as liver, kidney and ultimately lead to some terminal illnesses and even death.”

“Nigerians should, therefore, join hands and shun them because if nobody patronises them, they will fizzle out. If there is no demand, there will be no market,” the NAFDAC Director-General stressed she added.

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