The Bureau of National Investigations has picked up a pharmacist at Goaso Hospital in the Brong-Ahafo Region for selling drugs imported by Tobinco Pharmaceuticals Company.

Agyeman Badu was arrested yesterday following revelations that he had stockpiled some imported drugs banned by the Food and Drugs Authority.

But lawyer for the suspect Frederick Asamoah tells Joy News his client is being frustrated.

“They said they have transferred him from the Annex to the Head office, we went to the Head office and they said he is in the Annex.

“As I speak to you now we don’t know exactly where he is, and why he is being charged by the BNI. No charge has been formally professed against him and that is the problem, and for now we are in a limbo.”

He said he has no choice but to go to court to demand reasons for his arrest and detention.

According to him, his client told him the drugs in question were bought by the hospital in March before the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) problem with Tobinco started.

Though he admitted that the FDA through the media had requested health facilities to return the drugs, his position was that the FDA does not communicate to them through the media and was therefore waiting for a formal letter from the FDA to that effect, and a clear direction from his superiors.

“Unfortunately he came to Accra and all that we heard is that a big man says he must be kept.”