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November 12, 2019
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administrationand Control NAFDAC has called for stiffer punishment for drug traffickers andimporters of illegal drugs into the country.
The Director General of the agency Mojisola Adeyeyemade the call during news conference in Abuja.
She decried what she described as light sentenceshanded peddlers of Tramadol and counterfeit drugs, calling on the judiciary toreview the penalties.
She commended the Federal Government for its supportin terms of equipment, adding that the agency was having it better in thepresent administration.
Adeyeye also said that 12 different individuals werecaught with large amount of substandard and falsified medicine, some of whichhad been destroyed.
She said that some of them were being investigatedor prosecuted, while some had been sentenced.
She added that the agency had destroyed substandardand falsified medical products worth more than N3 billion between November  2017 and November 2018.