By Kayode Ojewale
Lately, Nigeria
has witnessed increased cases of some heartless human beings with dead
conscience relabelling and revalidating dates of expired foods and drugs. The
arrests of the perpetrators and confiscations of relabelled expired drugs were
carried out by the officials of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and National
Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
The news media has
thus been awash with stories of seized expired foods and drugs. It was recently
reported that N15 million worth of fake expired products was confiscated in Nasarawa State. Just last month, NCS and NAFDAC
destroyed N100 million worth of expired medicaments and other items at Seme
command of NSC. Some N80 million worth of expired goods were destroyed also in Abuja last month by
NAFDAC. It was revealed that some of the products were voluntarily submitted by
companies and individuals while others were seized through enforcement.
