Plumber Dealers Deny Attack On NAFDAC Officials At Onitsha Market

Plumbing materials dealers in Anambra state, on Wednesday, dissociate themselves from the alleged attack on officials of the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) at the popular Onitsha market.

Chairman of the association, Mr. Ebuka Efuobi, who stated this  while addressing newsmen, denied any knowledge of attack in the market.

The chairman said they had a meeting where they agreed that nobody should be allowed to park drugs in the market.

There had been accusation and counter accusations following the attack on the officials who were in the market on a tip off to inspect a warehouse stacked with suspected fake and adulterated drugs.

He said, “l am not aware that officials of the agency came to my section. I was not informed and nobody sent for me when they arrived.

“If they have any issues with the drugs they should ask the drugs dealers popularly called Ogbo Ogwu.”

“We have security here. Maybe they didn’t inform anybody when they bashed into the market, went straight to the warehouse and begin to break it,” he added.

“Nobody was beaten to my knowledge and NAFDAC should know that we deal on plumbing materials and not drugs”,he stated.