Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, DG NAFDAC
Abia to collaborate with NAFDAC to rid Nigeria of fake drugs, substandard goods
From Boniface Okoro, Umuahia
Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti has assured that his administration would partner the National Agency For Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in it’s fight to rid the country of fake drugs and substandard products.
Governor Otti gave the assurance at Government House Umuahia, when he received the Director General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye and her team who were in the state for an official assignment.
The Governor who regretted that a lot lives have been lost as a result of consuming fake drugs and substandard products, vowed that his administration would stop at nothing in it’s fight to eradicate fake products.
He stated the his administration has set up a harmonized task force to fight against negative tendencies, adding that government was poised to maximize the positive energy of Abia youths and channel them to positive ventures.
He applauded the NAFDAC DG for being passionate about her job and thus, saving lives of many Nigerians and for her endorsement for his government.
Earlier, the DG NAFDAC, Prof Adeyeye, who was in the state for stakeholders engagement with the Micro-Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), emphasized that NAFDAC’s mandate was to regulate, control the manufacturing of drugs, foods and other chemicals to prevent deaths of many Nigerians as a result of consumption of unwholesome products.
“NAFDAC’s mandate is to regulate and control the manufacture,importation, exportation, advertisement, sale and use of several regulated products, drugs, food, chemical devises, cosmetics, packaged water.
“So that we can ease the pain of our people, so that we can prevent death of so many that take falsified, substandard medicine and all unwholesome food.”
The NAFDAC DG, while stressing the need to harness the MSME industry, emphasized the need for coordinated wholesale centres where people who market drugs and other related products could be monitored, adding that Nigerians deserve the best.
“So, we are praying and hoping, sir, that in your time, we will have a coordinated wholesale centre where our people, our marketers can be monitored.
“That way, we will not be loosing children under five years old being given bad medicines that will not work,” she said.
