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.

Sobi     Lola Ashiru     Smart School     Olabanji Orilonishe     Okin Biscuit     Offa Metropolitan Club     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Nagode     VADA     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Muritala Olarewaju     Lanre Olosunde     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Saka Keji     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Okin Malt     Amuda Musbau     JMK Construction Company Limited     Bilikis Oladimeji     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Christopher Odetunde     Paul Olawoore     Wahab Abayawo     Lai Mohammed     Universal Basic Education Commission     Oloyede     Aro Yahaya     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Falokun-Oja     3MTT     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Tunde Yusuf     Buari Edun     Shehu Salau     Barakat Community Secondary School     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Kaiama     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Just Event Online     High Court     Daud Adeshola     Hassan Oyeleke     Amina El-Imam     Kunle Okeowo     Onikijipa     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Kola Shittu     Offa Descendants Union     Isapa     Otoge     Idowu Laro     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Lateef Fagbemi     Musa Alhassan Buge     Baboko     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Prince Bola Ajibola     Senate     Law School Scholarship     Towoju     Marafan Shonga     Sun Qing Rong     Kulende     Sheriff Shagaya     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Kale Bayero     Kamaldeen Gambari     Ali Ahmad     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Igbaja     Sabi     Amada Jidda     Yakubu Danladi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ibrahim Oniye     Mustapha Akanbi     Ibrahim Gambari     Maryam Nurudeen     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Okasanmi Ajayi     Mubarak Oladosu     Tsaragi     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Alaro     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     GAMA     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Rabiu Kwankwaso     Toyin Falola     Nigerian Correctional Service     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Adedipe     Mazars Consulting     Gbenga Adebayo     Malete     Lola Olabayo     Femi Gbajabiamila     Ganiyu Abolarin     Abdulwahab Ololele     Students Union Government     Gbajabiamila     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Mohammed Haruna     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Ado Ibrahim     Al-Hikmah University     Firdaos Amasa     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Ben Duntoye     Alabere     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Osuwa     Abegunde Goke     Kale Belgore     GANZY     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     NaAllah     Crystal Corner Shops     Charcoal     Gwanara     Wale Oladepo     IsDB     Dankaka     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Idofin     Owu Fall     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Oloriegbe     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Ahmed Bayero     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Quranic Recitation Competition     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Yomi Ogunsola     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     ASKOMP     Babs Iwarere     Okin Group     Bayo Lawal     Yahaya Dumoye     Bayo Ojo     Earlyon Technologies     Sunday Otokiti     Aisha Gobir     Maryam A. Garuba     Wasiu Onidugbe