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From Okey Sampson, Umuahia
The Director General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof Mojisola Adeyeye has tasked Abia State Government on the need to establish coordinated wholesale centres where people who market drugs and other related products can be monitored.
Prof Adeyeye who was in the state for stakeholders engagement with the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs),
gave the task when she paid a courtesy call on Governor Alex Otti’s at Government House, Umuahia.
The NAFDAC DG, while stressing the need to harness the MSME industry, emphasized the need for such coordinated wholesale centers adding that Nigerians deserve the best.
“So we are praying and hoping 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.
She emphasized that NAFDAC 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.
“NAFDACs 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”
Dr Otti while responding assured that his administration would partner NAFDAC in it’s fight to rid the country of fake drugs and substandard products.
The Governor regretted that a lot of lives have been lost as a result of fake drugs and substandard products, assuring that his administration would stop at nothing in it’s fight to eradicate fake products.
He applauded the NAFDAC DG for being passionate about her job, adding that
his government set up a harmonized task force to fight against negative tendencies in the state.
