NAFDAC has accused social media influencer popularly called ‘VeryDarkMan’ of colluding with fake drug merchants to incite the public.
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has accused a prominent social media influencer, the Very Dark Man of colluding with fake drug merchants to incite the public against the agency in a bid to circumvent the law.
The popular social media influencer was seen in the midst of protesting traders in the Onitsha Bridge Head Market in Anambra State, alleging that officials of NAFDAC were extorting money from them before reopening their shops closed in wake of the operation against fake and unwholesome medicine.
The traders said they being forced to pay monies ranging from N500,000 to N700,000 in order to reopen their businesses.
However, in a statement signed by the Director General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the agency said “the market has been reopened on the 9th of March 2025 and that over 2500 traders with 3500 shops who have come forward for necessary regulatory procedure have resumed their normal activity in Ogbogwu market”.
She said the remaining few shops whose owners have refused to come forward for identification are the ones with outrightly banned narcotics according to our database.
She explained that due to the intervention of the respective state governments, the traders were given a moratorium to relocate to a conducive Coordinated Warehouse Centre where their activities will be well monitored and controlled while being held accountable for previous infractions to serve as a deterrence in accordance with gazetted regulations.