Hoodlums attack NAFDAC officials in Lagos, Ogun states

…As agency raids markets for unregistered products Officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC and mobile Police men attached to its enforcement directorate were yesterday attacked by traders and touts in Lagos and Ogun States. A statement signed by Anselm Okonkwor Public Relations Officer, Enforcement Operations, NAFDAC, said that the attacked enforcement teams of the agency were on a nationwide raid for fake, unregistered, counterfeit and suspected contaminated vegetable oil in major markets and distribution channels in the states when the traders and touts swooped on them seized some of the products already evacuated by the teams and beat up one of the Agency’s staff identified as Miss Evelyn Chiemeke. According to an eye witness, the exercise which was almost successful turned rowdy when the members of the Union at markets trooped out in their hunadreds with the help of ‘area boys’ preventing the enforcement team from evacuat