NAFDAC: Counterfeit Drug Dealers Moving to Nigeria’s Rural Areas

National authorities in Nigeria said they have detected a new strategy being used by counterfeit drug dealers. They are pushing their fake medicines in the country’s rural areas.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians that as they continue their crackdown on phony drug peddlers, the illicit trade is heading into the country’s less-developed regions, according to ThisDay.com.

During a fact-finding visit from Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu and the Minister of State, Alhaji Suleiman Bello, Dr. Paul Orhii, the director-general of NAFDAC, said that the agency has identified the counterfeit drug dealers’ strategy and is taking steps to combat it.

“Counterfeit drug traffickers are now relocating into the rural areas because of the strict enforcement by NAFDAC in all the major cities across the country”, he said, reports the news source.

Orhii also said that NAFDAC is working with a number of international agencies like the World Health Organization (WHO) and Interpol to fight the counterfeit drug trade.