Police arrest manufacturer of fake wines, whiskeys in Lagos

Police operatives from the Area D Command in Mushin area of Lagos on good Friday, arrested one Benjamin Ojukwu, for selling adulterated wines at Ojuwoye market.

Parading the suspect before newsmen, the Lagos state Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, on Tuesday said;

“A valid search warrant was executed in his shop and the following items were recovered. They include various brands of wines and hot drinks suspected to be adulterated. Empty wine bottles and labeled bottle corks of different types of drinks.”

The suspect who insisted that he bought the exotic wines from the market and further denied the allegation of adulteration, blamed the Federal Government and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) for his travails.

Ojukwu disclosed that he was a trained in wine manufacturing in Taiwan, and used the money he made from Taiwan to set up a wine factory in Nnewi.