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In reaction to the trend whereby the insecticide is flagrantly used as suicide weapon, the federal government has banned SNIPER from being sold in open markets including supermarkets.
The National Food, Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) on Wednesday ordered that the product be immediately removed from open shelves and counters.
NAFDAC’s Director, Veterinary Medicine and Allied Products Directorate, Dr. Bukar Usman, who made the announcement at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, noted that Sniper is an agro-cultural product meant to be used only in the farms and not for households.
He urged manufacturers and dealers to cooperate with NAFDAC to mop up the 100ml size of the product which were cheap and easily acquired.
He stressed that the directive was not an outright ban of the product but a restriction of its use and availability to farms alone, adding all agro-chemicals meant for farms should not be used in households.
According to him, “Recently, some suicide cases have been associated with people drinking Sniper. Henceforth, we call on the agro-chemical industry to enhance their distribution channels so that this product (Sniper) gets to only accredited distributors and marketers.
“We have also placed a ban on the manufacture of smaller packs of Sniper which are easily purchased for household use.
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