The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has sealed two unregistered water-packaging companies for allegedly operating without approval in the Ota area of Ogun State.
The State Coordinator, NAFDAC, Ogun 2 Office, Philip Benu, told Newsmen on Thursday in Ota after the exercise, that the two companies failed to meet NAFDAC’s requirements for registration.
Benu said the raid and enforcement were based on routine inspections by regulatory officers in the Ogun 2 office, Ota.
He said that the facilities of the two companies were placed on hold with NAFDAC seal and the companies were invited to the office for scrutiny when they were found operating without approval early in the year.
Benu added that at the time of the first inspection, there was nobody on the ground to warrant immediate arrest for questioning at both facilities.
The NAFDAC state coordinator further said the two companies resumed production of unregistered water products with fake NAFDAC registration numbers, operating in a dirty and unhygienic environment.
As part of efforts to curb the outbreak of Cholera in some parts of Ogun State, which has killed at least 12 people, the Ogun State Government, through the Ministry of Environment, set out to commence the verification of producers of table water and beverages in the state.
This was disclosed by the state Commissioner for Environment, Ola Oresanya during a stakeholders’ meeting with the Table Water and Beverages Producers Association of Nigeria held at the ministry’s Conference Hall, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.