The Kano State Task Force Committee on Counterfeit, Fake, Drugs and other consumables, said it had sealed a warehouse in the Bompai area of Kano metropolis with two trucks loaded with suspected fake foods.
The Information Officer of the state Ministry of Health, Mrs Hadiza Namadi, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, said that the items seized were mostly juice drinks.
In his remarks, over the sealing of the warehouse, the committee Chairman, Dr Ghali Sule, said that the discovery was made following the interception of a vehicle conveying some of the suspected food items from the warehouse.
Sule stressed the committee’s commitment to also free the state of substandard and unwholesome drugs, which posed danger to people’s health.
He enjoined the public to provide the committee with information on the locations of where such heinous acts were being suspected.
In the meantime, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Aminu Tsanyawa, has also reiterated the ministry’s determination to stop the circulation of fake and substandard drugs and food items in the state.
He said that as the Ramadan fasting period approached, some merchants take advantage of high demand for sundry items to engage in unwholesome activities so as to make money by any means.
Tsanyawa said that the ministry would convene a stakeholder meeting to discuss strategies to minimise the rampant circulation of fake and substandard items in the state.
He further said that the ministry, in collaboration with the National Agency for Food Administration and Control (NAFDAC), would soon commence investigations to ascertain the source of the fake and substandard items.
