The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Friday, raided hawkers Outlets’ known for selling harmful drugs at the Nyanya/Mararaba axis of Abuja, where goods worth N45m were seized

Leader of the anti-drug agency who led the operation, Umar Suleiman, while addressing Journalists, said the operation followed earlier surveillance carried out by officers of the agency’s enforcement unit.

Suleiman, an assistant chief regulatory officer, Federal Task Force, Investigation and Enforcement, NAFDAC, disclosed that the operation was also to confirm if Baban Aisha Herbal products were still in the market.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), few weeks ago, reported the raiding of Baban Aisha production factory located along Abuja-Kaduna road by the agency for selling unregistered herbal products.

NAFDAC had alleged that Baban Aisha had only registered some of his herbal medicine, using the privilege of those to sell unregistered ones.

The agency also raided and sealed the Al-Nassar Islamic Herbal medicine store at 151 Minna Road, Suleja, Niger State.

Suleiman said those advertising Baban Aisha products were not permitted for now, adding that the agency was able to arrest five of the hawkers of the harmful drugs, and one of them escaped.

According to him, “Most of the drugs we seized in the Suleja shop are sex enhancers (Manpower), sex enhancers drugs like Night Rocket, Black Diamond, Double Rocket, AK-47 and many more.

“We also seized other herbal preparation medicine such like transformer, maibulala, maibusher.

“At that particular shop alone in Suleja, drugs found there worth N35 million, and for the hawkers, we have an estimate of N10 million.”

He further disclosed NAFDAC plans to extend its search operations to other regulated products like food, cosmetics, medical devices, detergent, package water and chemicals.

He said the agency would soon commence its search mission on pharmaceutical stores and warehouses to rid the country of counterfeit and fake drugs, noting that such raid would would send a signal to other people planning to sell the same unwholesome medicines.