Abia Govt. seeks NAFDAC’s partnership to end fake drugs
The Abia State Government has expressed its readiness to partner with the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration, and Control (NAFDAC) in its campaign against fake drugs and substandard products.
Gov. Alex Otti made this known on Tuesday, when the Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House, Umuahia.
Otti said that the government would stop at nothing towards ensuring that the fight against the sales and manufacturing of fake drugs and substandard products succeeded in Abia.
He said that the government would not relent in encouraging Abia people to maximise and channel their potential for positive ventures.
The governor commended the NAFDAC boss for being passionate about her job, thus saving the lives of many Nigerians.
He also thanked her for endorsing his government.
Earlier, Adeyeye said that the agency had the mandate to regulate and control the manufacturing of drugs, foods, and other chemicals to prevent the deaths of any Nigerian as a result 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 devices, cosmetics, and packaged water.
”This function will play a vital role in enabling the agency to ease the pain of our people so that we can prevent the deaths of so many who take falsified, substandard medicine and all unwholesome food,” she said.
Adeyeye also emphasised the need to harness the micro, small, and medium enterprise industries in Africa.
According to her, there is a need for coordinated wholesale centres where drugs and other related products could be monitored, as 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 and our marketers can be monitored,” Adeyeye said.
She further said that the establishment of such a centre would provide viable machinery that would boost the campaign against fake drugs and substandard products in the state.
