By Monday Ajegena
The National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down a registered Water Factory caught producing five different products in Lafia, Nasarawa State.
Pharm. Anga Emmanuel, Deputy Director and Officer in charge of the Lafia office of the agency stated this to journalists on Friday in Lafia.
According to the NAFDAC Officer, the factory that was registered to produce Mainima Table Water in Lafia was caught during a routine inspection exercise by the agency.
He explained that one Mr. Christian Chukuma was arrested when the team from the agency visited the factory for an inspection of different water products.
He listed the other products that the owner of Mainima Table Water was producing illegally as Bilal Table Water, Nkonjun Table Water, Anumzi Table Water, and Agbeni Table Water.
“All the other products he was found to be producing are not from Lafia, one is even in Kaduna State.
“We also discovered that the license of the factory is expired, and the place has not met good manufactory compliance and is not supposed to produce at the moment,” he added.
Emmanuel further said that Bilal and Agbeni are companies in the Dothe ma Local Government Area, while Nkonjun is in Akwanga LGA, and Anumzi is a company in Sanga LGA of Kaduna State.
The Deputy Director further said that this kind of practice is not acceptable and urged those engaged in it to desist before they are caught.
He added that the agency would continue to go after those engaged in illegal practices to ensure that the public only consumes good and healthy products.
He added that the factory was already shut down, and the culprit would face the full wrath of the law to serve as a deterrent to others.
The Deputy Director, therefore, called on the public to report any fake products being produced in their areas for prompt action.
The culprit has, however, confirmed to journalists that he was caught producing different water products apart from his own.
Chukuma said that he was compelled by the economic realities in the country to engage in illegal practice to survive and pleaded for mercy.
He further said that he rented the place from someone and said the owner was not aware of the illegal things he was doing in the water factory. (www.krestnews.com).