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Anambra Information Commissioner Paul Nwosu
By PAMELA EBOH, Awka
Government of Anambra State has placed a ban on the advertisement of all forms of herbal drugs in the state.
The state Commissioner for Information, Sir Paul Nwosu, stated this in a statement over the weekend, saying that government had mandated that all advertisements for herbal drugs must be approved by the office of the special Adviser to the Governor on Herbal medicine and Pharmaceuticals before they could be displayed in any public space or media platform.
Herbal medicine a.k.a ‘agbo’ are products made from botanicals, or plants, that are used for curative or preventive purposes.
Before the ban, Anambra was being caricatured as a place where first time visitors to the state would be greeted with open advertisement of herbal medicine in motor parks and other strategic places in the state.
This is common for people living in rural settlements.
In recent times, however, attention has been brought to the increasing number of people suffering from Kidney failure, which has been attributed to the indiscriminate use of Herbal medicine.
