Two Abuja shops have been reportedly closed by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control for selling unapproved products.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the shops are located in the Zuba Central motor park and Utako main market.
The unregistered products said to be aphrodisiacs are: “Hajiya Ayesha Snuff, AK47, Bulletproof, and Hajiya Aysha Maisanda.
According to the Deputy Director of NAFDAC, Tamanuwa Baba, investigation and enforcement department, the operation was prompted by intelligence inputs regarding the stores.
“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.
Baba stated that the agency had apprehended the sales representative in the Zuba shop until the shop’s owner returned from his journey.
“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 said.
