The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized banned pharmaceutical products in Onitsha, Anambra State, during a raid.
The agency also burst factories manufacturing fake alcoholic beverages in Enugu and Imo states during the month.
The Director of NAFDAC (Southeast Zone) Martins Iluyomade said the drugs intercepted in Onitsha, included 892 bottles of Codeine Syrup, 26 packs of Rohypnol tablet (Flunitrazepam) and 16 packs of Swings tablet (Flunitrazepam).
Others were six rolls of Teka Tramadol capsules 100mg, 10 packs of Super Terpentol tablet 200mg and 8 packs Osaka Tramadol Capsules 100mg.
Iluyomade hailed the Anambra State Coordinator, Louis Mmadubuatta, for a successful operation, saying the drugs pose grave danger to public health.
According to Iluyomade, the drugs were dangerous psychoactive substances, especially Rohypnol, which is largely used by kidnappers, rapists, cultists and ritualists, on their victims.
“These are controlled drugs which should not be found in an open market or in the hands of individuals,” he said.
Iluyomade said other breakthroughs included the discovery of a factory under the name BEST IJAW at Ibagwa Aka, in Igboeze South Local Government Area of Enugu State, which specialised in the production of an unapproved dry gin.
He said the factory had eight PVC containers filled with substances suspected to be ethanol and drums of substances equally suspected to be ethanol.
“The so-called factory is in an uncompleted building used for rearing all manners of domestic animals and is very unkempt.
“Workers fill small branded plastic bottles with substances suspected to be ethanol from these drums and they distribute them to the innocent public for consumption,” he said.