Concerned over uncoordinated supply of drugs to illegal premises, the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria has solicited the support of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to tackle what it described as ”illegal activities” at the Onitsha Head Bridge drug market in Anambra State.
He said even though traders in other open drug markets in the country had keyed into the coordinated wholesale centres initiated by the federal government to substitute the open drug market, traders in Onitsha Head Bridge have refused to key in. “They have refused to move to the Coordinated Wholesale Centre they are supposed to move to. Kano open drug market has keyed into it, the open drug market in idumota has keyed into it and their construction is on advanced stage but that of Onitsha, they deliberately say that they are not going and that shows that whatever activity they are doing there is illegal and injurious to the lives of Nigerians.