A man has been arrested by Odumase Krobo District Police command for peddling relabeled expired herbal medicine to the residents
According to the local Police, a Complainant Tettey Isaac Asare, 45, a farmer who lives at Mampong a suburb of Odumase-Krobo went to the Odumase Krobo Police Station with four(4) bottles of the herbal drug labeled “EKUOBA MAL MIXTURE” and reported that on the same day May 15, 2020, he bought the herbal medicine from four young men who came to his house to sell to him at a total cost of GH 60.
However, he said, after the culprits had left, he noticed the medicine expired on February 28, 2019, but relabelled with a new expiry date of 10 April 2022.
The Complainant combed the area but did not find the suspects. Fortunately, he later found them selling at Agormanya Market center; therefore, they want Police to arrest them.
Police immediately accompanied the Complainant and arrested one of the suspects- Bismark Aboagye together with 157 plastic bottles containing the alleged expired medicine.
The police went on a search in the room of the suspected arrested and retrieved 80 additional bottles at Ogome a suburb community of Somanya.
The Herbal Concoction is prescribed to customers as having potency to treat stomach disorders, gonorrhea, and candidiasis.
The suspect has been detained and expected to be put before court today.
Efforts are underway to apprehend other accomplices.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
