Some traders in the market under the aegis of Concerned Bridgehead Drugs Market Traders Association raised the alarm during a press conference in Onitsha at the weekend, saying that fake drug barons were trying to use the opportunity of the upcoming election in the market to return to business by foisting one of them as a leader.
“What people do not know is that there is a cartel in the market that deals in fake drugs, and that cartel is now using the opportunity of the caretaker committee in the market to stage a return. The group warned Governor Willie Obiano and the National Agency for Food Drug Administration Regulation and Control that the state of the market in 2007, which caused NAFDAC to seal it would be child’s play because the fake drug barons are now more vicious, and this would cause deaths.