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General News of Tuesday, 7 January 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

NAFDAC to recruit soon

NAFDAC DG, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye NAFDAC DG, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye

Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye has revealed the agency's intentions to take on new recruits.

She said this step is necessary as the agency is currently understaffed.

“We need staff; we also need vehicles, and not too long ago, we got approval for 15 vehicles; but that is a drop in the bucket because we have 36 states.

“For instance, we cannot say we are giving one vehicle to Abia State. “What will one vehicle do when you are pursuing people that want to kill Nigerians with bad medicine; so we are praying, hoping and planning to buy more in 2020,” she said.

The NAFDAC boss stated that they were financially responsible and were modest about spending habits.

“That is what budgeting means, denying yourself a little comfort so that you will be able to buy the essentials, and that is what we are doing and the Federal Government has given the approval.

“Apart from members of staff and vehicles, we need equipment. You do not use litmus paper to test drugs or food.

“No! We need sophisticated equipment and one particular equipment is about N200 million, just one piece of equipment,” Adeyeye said.