NDLEA vow to crack down on patent medicine dealers found selling illicit drugs in Edo

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has issued a informing to patent medicine dealers implicit illicit cause sales, saying offenders volition look apprehension and prosecution.

DAILY POST reports that the Edo State Command of the agency, led by, Mitchell Ofoyeju, gave the informing astatine a one-day anti-drug maltreatment store for members of the National Association of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers (NAPPMED) connected Wednesday, April 22, 2026, successful Benin City.

According to him, “We are not present to vilify but to collaborate. We recognise you arsenic legitimate, caring concern radical who supply indispensable services. The NDLEA volition not hesitate to apprehension and prosecute immoderate erring subordinate who violates the rules of engagement.”

Ofoyeju described NAPPMED arsenic often the archetypal and astir accessible constituent of interaction for healthcare successful communities, particularly successful agrarian and underserved areas.

He said the purpose of the store is to empower members of the relation with cognition truthful that they tin amended support their businesses, communities, and corporate aboriginal from the devastation of cause abuse.

He noted that the spot reposed successful members of the relation by the nationalist is immense and comes with a important work that extends beyond dispensing medications to safeguarding nationalist wellness against the scourge of cause abuse.

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