National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control director-general Mojisola Adeyeye, said importers and distributors of fake and expires medicines in Nigeria are after her life and the agents of organisation.
Prof. Adeyeye who was speaking to media representatives in Abuja said she barley live her life in peace because of NAFDAC’s crack down on fake drugs as was recently seen in open drugs markets in Onitsha, Aba, and Lagos.
Narrating the agency’s challenges, the NAFDAC boss said: “I told you about the attempted murder about six months ago. One of our staff in Kano—his child was kidnapped because the father was doing what he was supposed to do. Fortunately, the child escaped.
“For me, I have two policemen living in my house 24/7 in Abuja and Lagos. I don’t have a life. I cannot go anywhere without police, and to me, that is not my way of living. But I don’t have a choice because we’ve got to save our country. Nonetheless, I also use common sense.”
However, she stated that the agency is pressing ahead with the assignment of ridding the country of harmful and expired drugs.
“We will continue our enforcement operation to protect public health and rid our country of falsified and substandard medical products. Many people are dying, and many have died as a result of the activities of fake drug peddlers.”
