Workers of distillery companies in the Sango-Ota area of Ogun State have decried the prolonged closure of their factories by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control over the enforcement of the ban on the production of alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets and polyethylene terephthalate bottles below 200 millilitres.
The workers appealed to the Federal Government to intervene, lamenting that the closure of the factories had plunged hundreds of employees into hardship.
They made the appeal on Friday in a statement jointly signed by the Ogun State Chairman of the National Union of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employees, Oluwole Ajayi, and the Branch Chairman of the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association, Somefun Olamiye.
According to them, officials of NAFDAC visited major distillery companies around the Sango-Ota area on July 23 and shut down their factories.
They listed the affected companies as Nigerian Distillery Limited, Intercontinental Distillers Limited, Supreme Distillery and Euro Global Foods.
