Agency Report

By Sani Idris

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has raided 10 warehouses in Sabon Gari market in Kano State, where they seized unregistered food products and arrested two people.

The Deputy Director in charge of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate of NAFDAC, Kaduna office, Mr. Tamanuwa Andrew, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Kaduna

He said the raid which they conducted at ware houses located at Sabon Gari market and Unity road, were in line with their regulatory activities and mandate of ensuring a healthy nation.

He said the food products they seized were 500 cartons of milk creamer; 3,655 cartons of lolly pop candy, 1,800 cartons of monosodium glutamate, 162 bags of star milk and 300 cartons of chocolate.

He added that they also seized 688 cartons of afri cafe and 219 bags of pre-plain green milk.

Tamanuwa said the Agency was not aware of how the products came into the country, stressing their much quantity.

"Our investigations will reveal the source of the products and their country of manufacture because all of them are imported, not manufactured locally in Nigeria.

"We will send them to the laboratory to acertain their quality and see if they are safe for consumption,"he said.

The Deputy Director further said that some of the food products may contained harmful substances which causes cancer.

He explained that the reason why they did not raid the open market, but concentrated on ware houses where NAFDAC regulated products were stored, was to have large quantity of seizure

"One of the strategy we emplore to reduce or minimise the menace of substandard, expired and falsified products is by countinous mop up of the products from circulation, which we ere not relenting on.

"This will send signal to individuals that wherever they store those products, we will get them, not that we will be seizing them in pieces.

"We want to know the kingpins who brings those products in large quantity,"he said.

The Deputy Director said they have invited the owners of the warehouses, and investigations would continue to a logical conclusion where the law would take it's position on them and those that were arrested.

He restated their committment in ensuring safe markets where consumers would buy the right and quality assured consumables and other products.

Mr. Kassim Ibrahim, the Kano State Coordinator of NAFDAC who also participated in the raid, said some of the raided warehouse were found to be poor in hygiene.

Speaking via a phone interview, he added that the warehouses were not observing good warehousing practices.

Ibrahim noted that they would embark on awareness campaign on good warehousing practices to owners of warehouses storing NAFDAC regulated products in the state.NAN (www.nannews.ng)

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Already, there have been verbal disagreements over the actual owners of the oil fields.

Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya (Punch)

Following the inauguration of oil drilling fields in Gombe, the state governor, Muhammadu Yahaya, has called on residents of the state to ensure the maintenance of peace to enable uninhibited exploration in Kolmani fields.

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In November, President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the first oil drilling operation in Northern Nigeria with oil fields located in Bauchi and Gombe States.

The discovery according to the president would yield the country over $3 billion in investment.

Already, there have been verbal disagreements over the actual owners of the oil fields.

However, the state warned that the, if the relative peace the residents of the state are currently enjoying, is threatened, exploration would be disrupted and investors in other sectors of the economy of the state may leave the state.

The governor said this on Wednesday, December 1, 2022, at the palace of Mai Kaltungo, Engr. Saleh Mohammed, when his campaign train arrived in Kaltungo after completing ward-to-ward campaigns in Balanga.

Governor Yahaya further warned that if measures are not taken to keep the communities peaceful, disputes between communities in the state could arise.

He said, “the desired economic benefit from the oil will only be a curse to communities and State in general if people continue to fight each other because of where the oil or exploration activities are sited.”

The governor also called on traditional institutions, saying they are stakeholders in ensuring peaceful co-existence among the people.