Fake Emzor Paracetamol Producer Sentenced To 7 years Imprisonment

A producer of phony Emzor paracetamol, Friday Ogbodo, has been sentenced to 7 years jail time 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 jailed by the Investigation and Enforcement officers of NAFDAC in his house at 18, Abagana street, Fegge, Onitsha, Anambra.Akintola stated that Ogbodo was jailed, where he used to falsify Maldox(Sulfadoxine and Pyrimethamine)a brand of anti-malaria tablet manufactured by a signed up Nigerian Pharmaceutical Company and was recovered from him.According to him, the operatives of the agency acted on intelligence details, dove on the convict in his residence in Onitsha and apprehended him.He stated that the convict confessed that he utilized to cut Emzor Paracetamol tablets

and repackaged them as Maldox (Sulfadoxine & Pyrimethamine )and provided the same to dealers in falsified Medical Products at the Head bridge market, Onitsha.Akintola quoted the found guilty as saying he had been in the business of adulterating and falsifying medicines for more than a year,

and making huge returns from it. ToriNG