Security operatives in Ondo State have arrested a man, Olowolayemo Ifetayo, for allegedly selling fake drugs, The Nation reports.
The state government had vowed to deal decisively with quarks, fake and counterfeit drug dealers.
The Commissioner for Health Dr Wahab Adegbenro said government holds the lives of residents seriously and would not allow anybody to toil with them.
Adegbenro said the government would also prosecute those operating hospitals under the guise of patient medicine stores and endangering the lives of residents.
The commissioner was represented by the Acting Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr Dipo Durojaye, after a monitoring by the Task Force on Counterfeit and Fake Drugs in Akure, the state capital.
He urged the residents to be careful where they seek medicare, saying there are accredited facilities where they can get good treatment when the need arises.
Ifetayo, who was arrested during the monitoring, was paraded before reporters.
Various control and banned drugs and injections, including Enagin, were reportedly found in his possession.
He had allegedly been administering drips, transfusing blood with wrong instruments, injecting his victims with banned and dangerous injections and using medical wastes in an unlawful manner.
Ifetayo was handed over to law enforcement agents to remand for prosecution.