Lagos medicine dealers allege hijack of wholesale drug centre

Tension is mounting in Lagos State’s pharmaceutical supply chain, as over 3,000 medicine marketers under the umbrella of the National Association of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers (NAPPMED), Liberation Zone, Lagos Island, have raised the alarm over alleged hijack and monopolisation of the Coordinated Wholesale Centre (CWC) by a select group of non-pharmaceutical actors and corporate interests.