`My Pikin’: NAFDAC continues evidence Wednesday

A Federal High Court in Lagos will on Wednesday continue hearing in a case against Barewa Pharmaceutical Company Limited, charged with the production of an alleged killer teething syrup, “My Pikin.”

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) had arraigned the company before Justice Okechukwu Okeke of a Federal High Court in Lagos.

On Monday, the case could not go on due to the absence of the trial judge, Justice Okeke, who was said to be away on an official assignment and the court adjourned hearing till the new date.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the company, along with two of its employees, Ebele Eromosele and Adeyemo Abiodun, are facing a six-count charge, bordering on the alleged offence.

The accused were re-arraigned on January 7, due to the amendment of the charge before the court, in which the name of the company’s late managing director, Mr. Kola Gbadegeshin, was struck out.

They had, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge and were granted bail by the court.

The prosecutor, Mr. Aminu Alilu, had informed the court that the second accused, Eromosele, had been appointed by the defence, to stand in place of the company, since the first accused was deceased.