Orhi said in a message to the formal destruction of counterfeit drugs worth N100 million in Enugu on Tuesday that counterfeiting in the country had been reduced to 6 per cent.
He said the feat was achieved through strategic developments by the agency to check the menace.
Orhi was represented at the occasion by NAFDAC’s Director of Special Duties, Dr Abubakar Jimoh.
“Statistics of counterfeit drugs have reduced from more than 40 per cent in 2005 to 6.4 per cent in 2012 through our strategies but we are still fighting against it till we get our target.
“The fight against counterfeit drugs is a challenging one, but we are winning the war with our technological strategies and the cooperation of stakeholders,” he said.
Orhi described drug counterfeiters as `merchants of death’.
He said the drugs were seized from Enugu, Imo and Ebonyi states, adding that the destruction was to rid the country of counterfeit drugs.
The director general said the drugs were fraudulently labeled to deceive consumers while sub-standard drugs were manufactured as a result of factory error.
In his goodwill message, the Assistant Director of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Mr Raphael Igweobi, commended NAFDAC for its efforts in combating fake drugs in the country.
He urged the agency to take the fight to rural areas in order to eradicate the menace in the country.
(NAN)
