 In the meantime, in order to set and enforce adequate standards for raw stakeholders in the pharmaceutical sector with respect to location, personnel and practice, over 342 premises were shut down owing to the violation of directives from the Governing Council. Earlier pharmacists, Council of Nigeria, PCN, had begun the operation around Sungur Tai Laro, Ifo, Shagamu, Mouwei, Bafo, Ogeriremo and Aberkota and the Virens. One person was arrested for generating fake rematers and will be reigned on Monday. In continuation of the efforts of the PCN to sanitize the drug distribution system in Nigeria, its enforcement team commenced operations in Nogun State from the beginning of this week. And at the end of the exercise, a total of 646 premises were visited and this is made up of 533 petermessing shops and 113 pharmacies. A total of 342 premises were sealed. They were sealed for offenses which include operating without registration or renewal of premises certificates, unauthorized sale of substances of abuse, poor quality, poor storage conditions, operating without employing the superintendent pharmacies, poor sanitary conditions, unauthorized training of apprentices among others. This number sealed is made up of 26 pharmacies and 316 petermessing shops. Total of 19 compliant directors were issued while one person was arrested for fraudulently collecting money meant for premises registration renewal from stakeholders. The public is hereby advised to source all drug needs from registered and currently licensed pharmacies and over the counter-messing drugs from petermessing shops. Our enforcement is not a punitive exercise. Our intention is not to get people out of business. Our intention is to encourage them to do the right thing. It's only when they are a cassitra that will now apply the full weight of the law because this is not the time to get people out of business. What we do as a government agency is to assist all the stakeholders who are willing to comply with the law to do the right thing. But when you refuse to do that... Use Updates