The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said it has commenced investigation into the garri reported Monday to have been imported from India.

The agency announced that preliminary investigation had shown the product to have been made in Ghana but packaged in the UK.

Speaking yesterday at a one-day zonal campaign on current regulatory issues in the safe use of drugs, animal feeds, pesticides and chemicals in Ilorin, the acting Director General of the agency, Mrs. Yetunde Oni, said the imported ‘Indian garri’ had no NAFDAC number, and efforts were on to know how the product got into the country, adding that garri is a staple food in Nigeria and should earn Nigeria foreign exchange instead of being imported.

Oni, who lamented that a substantial percentage of products were faked in the country, said that the agency would not rest until the people behind adulterated and unwholesome products were arrested and prosecuted.

Also speaking, the Kwara state governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Isiaka Sola Gold, advocated stiffer penalty for persons found guilty of producing fake or adulterated products.