The National Agency for Food and Drug
Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is looking to arrest
Nigerian-Cameroonian singer Reprudencia Sonkey aka Dencia. The warrant
has to do with the singer selling her controversial Whitenicious body
cream in Nigeria, which the agency says is illegal.
While speaking
at the recently held Nigerian Entertainment Industry Health Insurance
Convention, the Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr Paul Orhii said the
agency will arrest the Pop singer if they lay their hands of her. ‘There
is this Cameroonian singer that has been going around with a cream…if I
get her, she’ll be arrested’, he said at the conference, which held on
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at the Grand Ballroom of Eko Hotel and Suites,
Victoria Island, Lagos. Orhii also accused Dencia of selling a product
that causes skin cancer. However, this is yet to be medically proven.
Dencia’s
Whitenicious is a pigment-whitening cream created for individuals who
want to lighten dark spots or even their skin tone. The product has
stirred a lot of controversy in local and international media in the
past few months.
NET reached out
to Dencia who referred us to her reps. Team Dencia says NAFDAC can’t
arrest the Pop singer. ‘Whitenicious is not made in Nigeria and has no
connections with Nigeria.
Doesn’t Nigeria
have more problems than worry about Dencia? Arrest Dencia lol how do
you arrest a US citizen? Smh African leaders need to focus on Africa and
stop joining the bandwagon for fame’, a rep for the singer told NET via
e-mail. As for the accusations on selling a product that causes
cancer, Dencia’s rep says the agency is committing an act of defamation
against the singer’s brand. ‘Whitenicious has been in the market for
under 7 months and all these vicious lies and attack someone will pay
for it and maybe it will be NafDAC incase they didn’t get a simple law
class you don’t make such comments about anyone and their business
especially because no one has had any cancer like they claim. This is
defamation’. Her rep then goes on a full-scale rant: ‘They need to study
more and talk less. Nigeria has more issues than Whitenicious, Nigeria
has worst pollution that Whitenicious, maybe he can put his energy into
fixing roads and giving the masses clean water and lights to keep them
healthy since he is worried about a cosmetic that isn’t a drug. Where is
Dencia selling the products in Nigeria? Does she have a store there?
Why are people so pompous? He (Orhii) should get a life or maybe get
laid by his wife or side chicks. Dencia doesn’t care and wouldn’t even
give it any attention because it is that irrelevant’. The pop singer is
currently in the US, where she’s based….
-GossipMill
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