Kwara seals off 6 medicine stores

Date: 2013-07-03

The Kwara Government on Tuesday closed down six patent medicine stores for dispensing fake and counterfeit drugs in Offa and Ijagbo.

The Chairman, Kwara Assembly Committee on Fake and Counterfeit Drugs, Hajiya Risikat Lawal, ordered the closure when the committee visited some patent medicine stores in the state.

The six affected stores are located in Offa, Offa Local Government Area and Ijagbo in Oyun Local Government Area.

The stores are: Havila Pharmaceutical Services, Ijagbo; Alayande Medicine Stores, Ijagbo; and Ola-Iya Stores, Offa.

Others are Femto Medicine Stores, Offa; OloBola Medicine Stores, Offa; and Jossy Patent Medicine Stores also in Offa.

The Chairman said some of the offences committed by the sealed stores range from unregistered outfit, selling of regulated drugs such as anti-biotics, anti-hypertensive and treatment of patients.

She said owners of any medicine store found stocking fake and counterfeit drugs would be liable to half a million naira fine or imprisonment for two years or both.

"Patent medicine shops should desist from selling ethical drugs like Ampiclox capsules, procaine and penicillin injections with other controlled drugs," she said.

The Chairman advised patent medicine stores in the state to register and renew their licences with the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria through the state Ministry of Health.

Reacting to the development, the Commissioner for Information and Communication, Tunji Moronfoye, re-affirmed of government’s determination to rid the state of sales and consumption of fake and counterfeit drugs.

Moronfoye told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the committee on fake and counterfeit drugs would continue to assist the government to eliminate fake drugs. 

 - NAN

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Oba-Solagberu     Yetunde Balogun     Jaigbade Alao     Www.Kwarareports.com     Modibo Kawu     Kolawole Akande     BIR     Moshood Bakare     David Oyedepo     Christian Association Of Nigeria     UNIFEMGA     Pategi     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Razak Atunwa     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Senate Presidency     Babata     Nigerian Medical Association     Salman Alada     Modibbo Kawu     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     MINILS     Gani Saadu     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Al-Ilory     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Afolayan     Hussein Olokooba     Gbugbu     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Ahmad Uthman     Oba Abu     Bibire Ajape     Ilorin Metro Park     Sulyman Tejidini     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Tafida Of Kaiama     Amule     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Olawuyi     Hakeem Lawal     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     CBT     New Naira Notes     Abegunde Goke     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Afonja     Idi-Ape     Hausa     Azeez Salawu     Mutawalle     Kwara Volleyball Association     Adebayo Salami     Share/Tsaragi     Raji AbdulRasaq     Kola Bukoye     Offorjama     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Elerinjare     Yusuf Lawal     Abdulkadir Orire     NURTW     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Ibrahim Akaje     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Baboko     Aliyu Adebayo     Kehinde Baale     Rotimi Atere     Kishira     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

LAK Jimoh     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Yaru     Babaloja-General     Abubakar Atiku     Sunday Otokiti     Sobi FM     AbdulGafar Tosho     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Amule Elementary School     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Innocent Okoye     Binta Sulyman     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Yekini Adio     John Mayokun Dada     Emir Of Yashikira     Yahaya Dumoye     Amosa     Adedeji Onimago     Mohammed Haruna     Agor Market     Hassanat Bello     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Okin Biscuits     Sola Saraki University     Suleiman Idris     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Babatunde Idiagbon     Ilorin Durbar     High Court     Funke Adedoyin     Simeon Sayomi     Kemi Adeosun     Ilorin Emirate     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Asa LGEA School     Federal Allocation     Kolade Solagberu     Balogin Alanamu     Albert Ogunsola     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Age AbdulKareem     Galland Marcias     Ahman Patigi     Ahman Pategi University     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Kamaldeen Kehinde     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Dan-Kazeem     Metro Park     Ayodele Shittu     Gamji Members Association     Ayinke Saka     Borgu     First Lady     Medview Airlines     Oni Adebayo     Elese Of Igbaja     Adamu Attah     Saudat Abdulbaqi     John Kehinde Salako     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Vasolar Consultoria     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Ibrahim Mashood     Abubakar Olusola Saraki