A manufacturer of fake Emzor paracetamol, Friday Ogbodo, has been sentenced to 7 years imprisonment without an option of fine by a Federal High Court in Awka, Anambra.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Media Consultant, Mr Olusayo Akintola, made this known in a statement.
He recalled that Ogbodo was arrested by the Investigation and Enforcement officers of NAFDAC in his residence at 18, Abagana street, Fegge, Onitsha, Anambra.
Akintola said that Ogbodo was arrested, where he used to falsify Maldox (Sulfadoxine and Pyrimethamine) a brand of anti-malaria tablet manufactured by a registered Nigerian Pharmaceutical Company and was recovered from him.
According to him, the operatives of the agency acted on intelligence information, swooped on the convict in his residence in Onitsha and apprehended him.
He said that the convict confessed that he used to cut Emzor Paracetamol tablets and repackaged them as Maldox (Sulfadoxine & Pyrimethamine) and supplied the same to dealers in falsified Medical Products at the Head bridge market, Onitsha.
Akintola quoted the convict as saying he had been in the business of adulterating and falsifying medicines for more than a year, and making huge returns from it.
