The High Court in Accra has reportedly cleared Tobinco Pharmaceuticals Limited (TPL) and its Group Chairman, Elder Dr. Samuel Amo Tobbin, of any wrong doing in the case filed against the company by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), accusing it of importing fake drugs into the country.
According to a press release issued on Sunday, August 11, 2024, by Tobinco, the court presided over by Her Ladyship Audrey Kocuvie-Tay, in a ruling dated July 29, 2024, stated that the company never imported fake drugs into Ghana.
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The company indicated that it sued the FDA on July 19, 2019, when it was led by its former Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, accusing it of abuse of statutory powers. stated that Dr. Kwabena Opuni, between September and December 2013, targeted it under the pretence that it was importing fake drugs.
The FDA in 2013, during its adversarial operation, locked its warehouses across the country, causing needless embarrassment to the company and its group chairman. The FDA further banned Bliss GVS Pharma Limited, the then principal business partner of Tobinco, from exporting drugs into Ghana and labelled their drugs as fake, leading to the confiscation of its drugs from customers.
The court has now ruled that it was unlawful for the FDA to stop Tobinco from selling its products and erred in barring Bliss GVS Pharma Limited from exporting drugs into Ghana without approval from the Ministry of Health.
