Two trucks loaded with fake and expired drugs have been impounded by the Kano State Task Force on Fake and Counterfeit Drugs.
This was disclosed in a statement which was signed by the Public Relations Officer of the ministry of health, Mallam Ismail Gwammaja.
According to the statement, Dr Aminu Tsanyawa, the Chairman of the task force led the hunt for the trucks on receiving an information about them.
It was further learnt that the trucks were found in an incomplete building at Unguwar Dabai in Dala Local Government.
The statement said that government was committed to curbing the sale and consumption of illicit and fake drugs “especially by youths and women in the state”.
It said that government was strict on its resolve to end the rampant use of the substances and had ordered that the drugs market in Sabon Gari be moved to Dangwauro in Kumbutso Local Government.