FDA, Tobinco accused of collision in suspicious GH¢94 million judgment debt saga – Report
Published:
3 months ago
Source:
GhanaWeb
Following the ruling by an Accra High Court ordering the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) to pay a colossal amount of GH¢94 million to Tobinco Pharmaceuticals Ltd for the unlawful destruction of unexpired drugs belonging to the pharmaceutical company, the Herald newspaper has detailed what it terms as "dirt with allegations of collusion."
The detailed report also provided supporting evidence to what it says have been contradicting positions of the FDA and the Tobinco Pharmaceuticals LTD boss, Samuel Amo Tobin, in the case. The timelines and reliefs sought by Tobinco have also come into question, particularly when the current FDA boss, Dr. Delese Darko, has been around from the very moment this case started in 2013. What, however, has prompted this article are the questions surrounding the contradictions between the positions of Dr Darko in 2013 when she was not the head of the FDA, and how those positions changed when she climbed to the highest office of the enforcement authority. According to the investigations by The Herald, it said it had in its possession excerpts of a document prepared by Delese Darko, which revealed the confessions of Samuel Tobbin when he was summoned to the FDA headquarters for questioning on the importation of "unregistered Artesunate/Amodiaquine suppositories into the country" in 2013.