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Again, Ogun court remands land grabber, Lamina at Correctional Center

Again, Ogun court remands land grabber, Lamina at Correctional Center
Again, Ogun court remands land grabber, Lamina at Correctional Center

An Ogun State High Court sitting in Sagamu has ordered that a suspected land grabber, Kamorudeen Lamina, otherwise known as Sir K Oluwo, be remanded at the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Sagamu till December 3 when his trial will continue.

Lamina is standing trial for offences bothering on conspiracy to murder, attempted to murder, murder and armed robbery. He had earlier been granted bail based on the remand order by a Magistrate Court in Sagamu.

Having been properly arraigned on October 23, 2019, Justice Olajimi of the State High Court in Sagamu, ordered the accused to be remanded in prison on November 14, 2019.

But during the court hearing on Friday, the prosecuting counsel, who is also the Ogun State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), E.A Adewole, informed the court that Lamina violated Olajimi’s order earlier given on 23rd October that the accused be remanded at the Correctional Center in Sagamu.

The DPP further informed the Court that Lamina had been moving freely around the town and further causing commotion and harassments on innocent citizens.

But the defendant’s Counsel, Adebowale Odugbuwa, prayed the court to be lenient with his client. He also explained that the accused was only enjoying the bail earlier granted by High Court 1 before his re-arraignment at Court 4.

While ruling on the matter, Justice Olajimi expressed his displeasure over violation of his order and ruled that the accused be remanded at the Correctional Center, Sagamu till December, 3 for the continuation of the trial.

(2) PCN seals 96 pharmacies, 481 patent medicine shops in Anambra

A total of 577 premises comprising 96 pharmacies and 481 patent medicine shops have been sealed in Anambra State by the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria, PCN in continuation of its services aimed at sanitizing the system for better pharmaceutical services delivery

The PCN’s Director, Inspection and Monitoring, Mrs. Anthonia Aruya who made this known during the weekend while addressing newsmen after a five-day field inspection services in several parts of the said a total of 779 medicine premises were visited during the period.

Aruya, a fellow of the Pharmacist Council of Nigeria flanked by the PCN State Officer in Anambra, Fechi Njoku and others, said 19 other premises in the state were issued compliance directives while the sealed ones were indicted for various offences ranging from poor handling of controlled substances, sale and dispensing of prescription drugs without the supervision of a pharmacist as well as unhygienic environment and poor documentation in the interest of public safety.

She said the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria as a federal government regulatory agency has been carrying out enforcement activities across the states in fulfillment of its mandate as stated in the PCN Act, Cap P17, LFN, 2004 and also in line with the National Drug Distribution Guide of the Federal Government.

“The activities are geared at streamlining the drug distribution value chain to promote safe, effective and quality medicine distribution along with registered and currently licensed premises. These are premises where drugs are manufactured, distributed, wholesaled, retailed and warehoused . it also includes pharmacies and the patent proprietary medicine vendors’ shops.

“Pharmacies that opened at will without recourse to the Council cannot be guaranteed to have standards that will maintain the integrity of the products within such facilities, ‘’ she said.

Aruya said that the council and other regulatory agencies were working to relocate all open drug markets to coordinated wholesale centers for proper regulation.

The director advised the public to always seek the registration status of facilities where they access medicines to safeguard themselves from patronising quacks.

She said that any premises found selling without approval or selling above their scope of operation such as sale and dispensing of ethical products without the presence of superintendent pharmacists or handling of controlled medicines by nonpharmacists is operating in violation of the law.

Pic caption: Stephen Esumobi, Director Enforcement, Anthonia Aruya, Director Inspection, and Monitoring and Fechi Njoku, Anambra State Officer, Pharmacists Council of Nigeria, PCN during a press conference in Awka on the regulatory activities of the agency.

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