Beware! Fake Eva Water in Port Harcourt
The Rivers State Coordinator of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC, Mr. Emmanuel Onogwu, has charged members of the public on the need to always give useful information to the agency.
Onogwu explained that the information will lead to arrest of criminals who specialize in adulteration and faking of regulated products.
The state NAFDAC coordinator gave this charge following the discovery of a fake Eva Water producing factory at the Pipeline axis of Eneka in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The agency raided the fake bottled water factory and arrested one of the distributors who was caught packing and loading the product for sale to unsuspecting consumers.
In a statement made available to newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday, the NAFDAC Public Relations Officer, South-South Zone, Mr. Cyril Monye, explained that the suspects were using a ‘decrepit’ shop camouflage as a pool house for the production.
Monye noted that the discovery on Friday morning followed a tip off from some well-meaning members of the public which its official speedily acted on.
The statement read in part, “They pick used Eva plastic bottles which they fill with contaminated water fetched from a paint bucket while using dirty rubber funnel covered with clothing material as filter.
“The already printed Eva labels were then affixed into the plastic bottles and corked with already fake fitted Eva cocks.
“One of the distributors of the adulterated water who identified himself as Chibunna James was arrested as he was loading the product for sale, while the kingpin/producer is at large and efforts are on to track him down.”
The statement further added that “the fake products of 30 packs were eventually evacuated to NAFDAC office in Port Harcourt, while the uncorked ones were emptied.”
