Four traders at Ogbo Ogwu Bridge Head Market in Onitsha, Anambra State, have dragged the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Standards Organisation of Nigeria, the NAFDAC Zonal Director, South-East, Dr Martins Iluyomade and the Anambra State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to a Federal High Court sitting in Awka, over unlawful interference in their fundamental human rights.

The four traders (applicants) are Peter Okala, Alhaji Yunusa Tanko, Prof. Samuel Anidike and C.C. Emereonwu, who are also members of the United Nigeria Group.

They have, through their counsel, Chibuike Nwabueze (Esq), prayed to the court for some reliefs against the defendants, insisting that not all the traders in the market are dealing in counterfeit drugs as claimed by the agency.

The reliefs sought include an order of the court restraining the respondents, their agents, officers, operatives, and workers from further breaking into the applicants’ shops at Ogbo Ogwu Bridge Head market in their absence without a valid court order and search warrant and confiscating their goods and carting them to an unknown destination.