Nigerian social media influencers are collaborating toward the common goal of getting rid of manufacturers of fake consumables and are calling on the National Assembly to impose death penalties for offenders. This call came amid a rise in several operations and arrests conducted by officials of the ...
Nigerian social media influencers are collaborating toward the common goal of getting rid of manufacturers of fake consumables and are calling on the National Assembly to impose death penalties for offenders.
This call came amid a rise in several operations and arrests conducted by officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control to get rid of the products which has threatened public health.
As seen on X by TVC on Thursday, a Nigerian who identified as @Lord_Of_Warri posted a statement calling on the National Assembly to pass a bill introducing a death penalty for individuals found guilty of introducing fake Consumables to the market.
The statement reads, “The Death penalty should be handed to anyone who manufactures or sells fake consumable products. @nassnigeria must pass a law like this. These people have killed more people and caused more diseases than many wars.
“The rise in cancer, kidney, liver failures and other system breakdowns in Nigeria can be traced, in huge part, to fake medicines, fake drinks, fake foods, fake toothpaste, etc.
“A friend’s sister now needs new kidneys because of fake drinks — that pain is real. Those producing and distributing these poisons should be declared terrorists and given death sentences. Until that happens, this madness won’t stop.”
The call for the penalty intensified on Friday as Nigerians took to their social media handles to voice their concerns on the pressing need to implement a stricter penalty.
@CRawkeen wrote, “If you want to buy baby formula today, you have to spend more than 30 minutes reading everything written on the tin word for word because you are trying to figure out whether it is fake or original.
“This is not life. Please, let’s join voices to call for the death penalty for fake product producers in the country. Once they are caught, execute in 72 hrs.”
@TYFOsunState wrote, “Fake products are stealing lives every day. We must fight them before they take more of us. This is justice for those who are no longer with us, for the victims still suffering, and for those who have no one to speak for them.”
@yorubachic wrote, “Please support this with any amount you have. Fake products are killing Nigerians, but we can still save Salewa. No amount is too small.”
@JohnJbtt wrote, “Death penalty for both the fake product producers and also the big supermarkets that put their products on the shelves, because they both work hand in hand.
“Those supermarkets willingly put up fake products they got at cheap prices and then sell them at the original price.”
@StanEja1 wrote, “
Death penalty should be handed to anyone who manufactures or sells fake consumable products.@nassnigeria must pass a law like this.
“These people have killed more people and caused more diseases than many wars, the rise in cancer, kidney, liver failures and other system breakdown.”
@OgbeniDipo wrote, “Jesu Christ!! There are fake contraceptives in Nigeria! There are fake Postinor-2 (Levonorgestrel 0.75mg) in Nigeria!
“Where are our feminists, women activists and Nigerian men that love sex so much but are not ready to become dads? God! SAY NO TO FAKE DRUGS & DRINKS!”
TVC previously reported that Jubril Gawat, the Senior Special Assistant on New Media to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, responding to the tweet, stating that he is fully ready to support the movement calling for the implementation of a death penalty for individuals manufacturing fake products.
