The Chairman, Nigeria Association of Patent and Propriety Medicine Dealers in Kano State, Alhaji Musbahu Khalid, yesterday, expressed the concern that over 50,000 members of the association have been out of jobs following the government’s decision to relocate them to the Kano Economic City at Dangwauro area.

According to Khalid, shops in the new location are expensive and many of the patent store owners may not be able to afford the rent.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in collaboration with the Pharmacist Council of Nigeria, last Monday, raided and sealed not less than 1,321 patent medicine stores in the Sabon Gari open market of Kano.

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The operation took place 72 hours after the Federal High Court ordered the drug dealers to vacate their open market premises and relocate to the Coordinated Wholesale Centre at Dangwauro village on Zaria Road in the state.