By Dayo Adu
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control, NAFDAC has called on supermarkets and stores not to get products from importers not certified by the agency to stamp out parallel importation of products into the country.
The NAFDAC Coordinating Director for the six geo-political zones in Nigeria, and Director of Southwest Zone Mrs Roseline Ajayi made the call while interacting with our correspondent, Dayo Adu on the shutdown of a popular wholesale supermarket in the Dugbe area by officials of the agency.
Mrs Ajayi explained that the facility was shut down due to the supermarket management’s refusal to honour the invitation served on them by the Directorate of Investigation and Enforcement from Lagos.
She noted that imported products without NAFDAC approval were mopped up at the supermarket during a visit by the enforcement team following reports from whistle-blowers in which the management was summoned to Lagos for investigation but failed to show up since January till the day the facility was sealed.
While stating that parallel importation was prohibited, the NAFDAC Boss enjoined supermarkets and stores that deal in imported products to buy from authorised importers or obtain the licence for global listing for supermarket items to enable them to import branded items in large quantities into Nigeria.
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