Ebola:NAFDAC To Prosecute Ewedu Cure Claimer-Orhii





DG NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii stated in Lagos yesterday that the Agency will arrest and prosecute the perpetrators that claim they have cure to Ebola Virus Disease which are not scientifically proven to be true including a Professor of Ophthalmology at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH who claimed that ewedu (native vegetable) can cure EVD.



Orhii said the case of the LUTH Professor will serve as a warning and lesson to those who are willing to create panic in the society.

His words:

“One consequence of these unsupported and possibly fraudulent claims is that people may be
misled into a false sense of invincibility on account of eating Ewedu or bitter kola and drop their guards.

This is a national embarrassment and the Agency will not take such uncorroborated claims by supposedly learned people lightly,” he stated.

“These professors should not be patronised by Nigerians. Anybody who claims to have a cure for Ebola should come to NAFDAC, the Ethics
Committee or the Treatment Research Group set up by the Federal government than causing more panic
in the country.

”NAFDAC will immediately arrest and prosecute any Nigerian making such unverified claims as that could mislead the public.” he said.






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