…Gives Jaruma 72 hours ultimatum to address media

By Dirisu Yakubu & Fortune Eromosele

 Frontline civil rights group, The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, Wednesday, urged the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC and the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCCPC to clamp down on entrepreneurs/vendors marketing unverified sex enhancing performance products.

National Coordinator, HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko while addressing the media Wednesday expressed worry over the demand for sex enhancing performance products and called for a thorough investigation into the sales of the intimate product, ‘kayanmata.’

He tasked consumer agencies to take swift sanctions against such products and their marketers, saying, “HURIWA is calling on relevant regulatory agencies to wake up from slumber and protect vulnerable Nigerians from products such as sexual enhancers from being duped especially if these products are yet to be authenticated and accredited.

“Agencies such as the Federal Competition and Consumer Rights Commission formerly identified as the Consumer Protection Council and NAFDAC are the two leading regulatory authorities that ought to stop deceptive advertisements of sexual wellness and enhancement products that have flooded the airwaves and online/social media and wreaking domestic havoc and destabilizing marriages and relationships.”

READ ALSO: INEC Commissioner: HURIWA lauds Buhari, asks Senate to confirm nominees

In an open letter to Hauwa Sa’idu Mohammed, popularly known as Jaruma, a sex therapist and owner of the widely sold kayanmata, Onwubiko called her out to within 72 hours go to the media and repudiate the alleged efficacy of her local aphrodisiac or show approvals from regulatory authorities.

“We are giving you 72 hours from the date of this publication to go to the media and repudiate the alleged efficacy of your products with an apology to the men and women you have allegedly induced with your alleged unlicensed and unauthorized love potions, which has infringed on their rights accordingly.

“Failure to do so, we may very likely take legal steps to force relevant agencies of government to rise up and do their duty, unless and except you show proof that your kayanmata is certified and fit for consumption by NAFDAC and the FCCPC.”

He described the sexual enhancement product as a ‘love scam,’ adding that it violates Section 419 of the criminal code.

The continued: “You have portrayed that your kayanmata which literally means a woman’s property is said to enhance love and intimacy and even make women receive expensive gifts from men out of inducement – is this not tantamount to love scam and  false pretenses punishable in Nigeria, under Section 419 of the Criminal Code?

“Evidence available seems to suggest that you are allegedly preying on impressionable women and as such has allegedly built an empire on the gullibility of desperate women.

“Can you please contradict this allegation with empirical evidence and science-based licenced from Nigerian government?