Photo: HURIWA National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) is demanding for the immediate and sweeping action by the Federal Government, including a comprehensive overhaul of NAFDAC and SON.
HURIWA alleged that the NAFDAC and SON have failed in their statutory responsibilities, allowing Nigeria’s markets to degenerate into a free-for-all for fake products and dangerous goods.
Its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko also called for the removal of ineffective leadership, the installation of reform-driven professionals and the deployment of aggressive enforcement strategies to dismantle the networks behind the trade.
Onwubiko, noted that across Abuja and major cities, evidence abounds of a frightening infiltration of counterfeit wines, adulterated beverages, substandard processed foods and questionable household items.
” What should be basic consumables have now become potential instruments of slow poisoning,” said Ownubuko.
He emphasised that a vast majority of so-called imported wines are fake, while even widely consumed soft drinks are being illicitly reproduced and sold to unsuspecting Nigerians.
