By Tobias Lengnan Dapam
The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said she has reorganized the agency despite inheriting 3.02 billion naira debt which she paid off within her first year in office.
She added that about 180 million naira of the sum were discovered to be fictitious.
Adeyeye made this known at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja while reeling out the agency’s strategic goals for the years 2023-2028.
The NAFDAC boss said the IGR of the agency have tripled from N700 million to 2.5 billion naira based on her financial management initiative.
“User fees have more than doubled to 15 billion naira.
“From 2019-date, International Partners funding (Cash and Technical Support) received – amounted to $3,927,186.00. These funds are currently being utilized for specified purposes.
“NAFDAC was reorganized and more directorates created (from 13 to 27) for effective management.”
She added that she established a continuous training culture in customer-centric Quality Management System (QMS) for all NAFDAC mandates.
“Accreditation on QMS (ISO 8001-2015) in 2019 and yearly re-accreditation since that time. We motivated staff through trainings and better emoluments.”
On the state of laboratories in the country, she said more infrastructures were built in Sokoto, Kebbi, Yobe, Ogun, Kwara, Osun and Ebonyi; plus, Ports Inspection Directorate Airport NAHCO Office and Yaba Drug Laboratory are completed or near completion respectively to meet WHO specifications.
She said additional media outlets whould be used to disseminate information on NAFDAC activities.
“There will be use of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, drama and comedy artistes to convey importance of quality, safe, efficacious and wholesome regulated products as well as make media parley more structured.”
