{"id":8321,"date":"2013-08-14T04:44:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T04:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/nafdac-lauds-onitsha-drug-dealers-for-surrendering-fake-stock\/"},"modified":"2013-08-14T04:44:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T04:44:44","slug":"nafdac-lauds-onitsha-drug-dealers-for-surrendering-fake-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/nafdac-lauds-onitsha-drug-dealers-for-surrendering-fake-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFDAC lauds Onitsha drug dealers for surrendering fake stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fb-like-box\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" data-width=\"292\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-stream=\"false\" data-header=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\" data-send=\"true\" data-width=\"200\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"recommend\"><\/div>\n<p>By <strong><em>Citizens Platform<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0National Agency\u00a0for Food,\u00a0Drug Administration\u00a0and Control, NAFDAC, Tuesday, has commended members of the Onitsha Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers Union, OPPMDU, for voluntarily surrendering fake and expired drugs to the tune of N25 million to the agency for destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The commendation was given by the Assistant Director\u00a0of NAFDAC in-charge of Onitsha Special Zonal Office, Dr. Christiana Esenwah, while receiving the drugs from the traders, said the bold initiative was a giant stride towards ridding the market and Onitsha of expired drugs.<\/p>\n<p>In Esenwah&#8217;s words, \u201cthis goes a long way to show that NAFDAC\u2019s partnership with\u00a0traders\u00a0in its fight against fake, sub-standard, expired, unwholesome and adulterated drugs is yielding anticipated results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful for this step of ridding this\u00a0market\u00a0of unwholesome, expired, fake and sub-standard drugs for the benefit of all and the\u00a0agency is still looking up to the market executives to do more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/> Posted in <a href=\"http:\/\/nigerianews.disnaija.com\/\">Nigeria News. <\/a>A <a href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\">DisNaija.Com<\/a> network.<\/p>\n<p>Source:  Citizens Platform<\/p>\n<p><b>DisNaija.Com<\/b> publishes regular posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/nigeria-news.disnaija.com\/\">Nigeria News,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nigerian-newspapers.disnaija.com\/\">Nigerian Newspapers,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/online-nigeria.disnaija.com\/\">Online Nigeria Gist.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dis_Naija\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like-box\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" data-width=\"292\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-stream=\"false\" data-header=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\" data-send=\"true\" data-width=\"200\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"recommend\"><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/nigerianews.disnaija.com\/citizens-platform\/nafdac-lauds-onitsha-drug-dealers-for-surrendering-fake-stock\/\">Nigeria News<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dis_Naija\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"true\" data-size=\"large\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Dis_Naija<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Your Opinion Counts. 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The commendation was given by the Assistant Director\u00a0of NAFDAC in-charge of Onitsha Special Zonal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[8947,1474,150,2635,1869,1739,231,8948],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}