KCHAQUA Consortium Meets With PCN Registrar to Discuss CWC Project

A delegation from KCHAqua Consortium, a leading indigenous construction, infrastructure, and property development firm, paid a courtesy visit to the Registrar of the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN), Mr. Ibrahim Babashehu Ahmed, at the council’s headquarters in Abuja.

The Chief Executive Officer of KCHAqua Consortium, Mr. Chris Ukah, expressed the company’s excitement to discuss the Coordinated Wholesale Centre (CWC) project in Abia State with the PCN Registrar to ensure that the project meets all the necessary regulatory requirements and standards.

Ukah explained that his team was on a courtesy visit to the PCN Registrar to notify the council that KCHAqua Investment Limited has received approval in principle from Abia State Government to develop a Coordinated Wholesale Centre (CWC) in Aba and present essential documents for regulatory guidance and approval.

Ukah noted that Aba is a significant hub for medicine distribution in Nigeria, serving eight states in the South-south and South-eastern parts of the country and they include Imo, Ebonyi, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta, and Bayelsa, and neighbouring countries such as Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tome with a combined population of 31 million necessitating an expansive space to avoid squeezing the CWC out of modern fashion. 

The PCN Registrar, Mr. Ahmed Babashehu, welcomed the delegation and expressed his agency’s commitment to supporting the CWC project in Abia State and to ensure that all pharmaceutical projects in Nigeria meet the required standards.

Babashehu said the sale of fake and substandard drugs is a major challenge in Nigeria, assuring that the agency in collaboration with stakeholders must work together to address this problem.

He informed his guests that Enyimba Pharmaceuticals had previously submitted an application to the Council for the development of a CWC in Abia State.