NAFDAC closes stores selling unregistered sex enhancements in Abuja.

On Wednesday in Abuja, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control closed two stores for allegedly selling prohibited goods to Nigerians.

The stores are situated in the main market of Utako as well as the Zuba Central parking lot.

According to The News Agency of Nigeria, among the illegal goods allegedly used as aphrodisiacs include “Hajiya Ayesha Snuff, AK47, Bulletproof, and Hajiya Aysha Maisanda.”

The operation was carried out as a result of intelligence information concerning the stores, according to Mr. Tamanuwa Baba, Deputy Director, Investigation and Enforcement Directorate, NAFDAC.

“The products are meant to boost sexual performance and some were said to have been manufactured in Ghana.

“NAFDAC laboratory analysis indicates that these products contain a chemical substance called Pyridine which is a potentially harmful to the human body.

“We found a lot of unregistered products in the two shops. We will begin immediate investigations,” he said.

When asked when the shop’s owner would return from his journey, Baba claimed that the agency had detained the salesperson in the Zuba shop.

“We will get in touch with the owner of the shop on where he is sourcing these products from, but from the label on the products, some of them were allegedly manufactured in Ghana.

“What the sellers are saying is that these products usually make them high and some said that the product is used as an aphrodisiac.

“After the investigation, these products are going to be destroyed because they have not been registered by us.

He claimed that a comparable assortment of goods had also been found in the Kabo Investment Limited store in Utako.

Considering that the agency had carried out a similar operation in Sokoto where some of the products had been confiscated from a shop, he described it as alarming that some of the products had flooded the Nigerian market and are quickly spreading.

“I can tell you that Pyridine which is the chemical that is contained in some of these products can cause cancer, skin irritation and even lead to death.