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The new Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug
Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye has
officially resumed duties with a commitment to lead the agency toward
eliminating substandard foods and drugs in the country.
According to a statement signed by Dr. Abubakar Jimoh, Director
Special Duties, NAFDAC Professor Adeyeye said this in Abuja at the agency’s
corporate headquarters while addressing staff on her resumption of duty.
Noting that
NAFDAC has over the years, made steady progress in protecting the health of the
nation, she said the
Agency under her administration will continue to ensure the health of all
Nigerians and foreigners residing in Nigeria are not jeopardized by the use of
substandard or counterfeit regulated products.
She expressed deep concern that while majority of Nigerians have
concerns over safety of drugs, food, medical devices and water, little do they
know that chemicals can also kill people easily, which is why she has come to
ensure that NAFDAC lives up to her responsibility of eliminating falsified and
unsafe drugs, medical devices, foods and water in Nigeria.
“The concerns of our people are mainly about safety of our
drugs, food, medical devices and water. Most people, including those who
manufacture fake drugs and sell bad foods or water, do not plan to kill people,
but may not fully understand that chemicals (be they in drugs or food, or
through bio-contamination)
can kill hundreds of people easily”.
The NAFDAC DG expressed appreciation to the United States
Pharmacopeia (USP); United States Agency for International Development (USAID);
World Health Organisation (WHO); Nigeria Academic Pharmacists as well as other
partners for their efforts and support of NAFDAC in the assurance of quality
food, medicines and medical devices for all Nigerians.
She equally thanked the National assembly for their efforts so
far towards passing the Fake and Counterfeit Drug Act, saying the attainment of
the mission and vision of NAFDAC is a collective responsibility of all and her
role as a Director General is to provide the needed leadership, direction and motivation
to all staff for the realisation of the goals of the Agency.
In his remark, Mr. Ademola Mogbojuri, immediate past Acting
Director General of NAFDAC, expressed delight that the Agency has yet another
professor per excellence to take over the baton of leadership in NAFDAC, saying
it is a new dawn all hands must be on deck to take the agency to a lofty height
where it can remain a reference point in the comity of regulatory agencies in
the country.
