The director general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has dismissed the claims made by aggrieved workers as the basis for their industrial action, describing them as “untrue.”
Mojisola emphasised that while the management has been attentive to the workers’ welfare, it is limited by its mandate in matters such as promotions and certain remunerations.
In a statement on Monday by the agency’s Resident Media Consultant, Sayo Akintola, the DG however reiterated her commitment to the workers’ welfare.
As at the time of filing this report, the workers have not called off the one-week-old industrial action, as their demands remain unmet, though, it was gathered that negotiations to end the strike are ongoing.
The workers are protesting the agency’s failure to promote the significant number of staff who participated in the 2024 promotion interviews.
According to the aggrieved workers, despite many of them meeting or surpassing the required pass mark, NAFDAC management cited a lack of vacancies, leaving more than 500 eligible employees without the promotions they had earned.
