The return of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC personnel to the ports in 2018 has assisted in reducing importation of fake and substandard products into the country.
NAFDAC Director-General Mojisola Adeyeye made the assertion during
a News Agency of Nigeria, NAN forum in Lagos. She also noted that the
presence of agency’s officials at the ports had assisted to curb
importation of bad products and identified the nefarious importers and
cabals behind such transactions.
According to her, the ports are safer now compared to when NAFDAC
officials were absent at the ports.
The Director-General said NAFDAC’s presence at the ports would
continue to ensure that dangerous drugs or substances of abuse – many
times falsely shipped as building materials, electrical appliances,
computer accessories – are intercepted at the point of entry.
It would be recalled that NAN recalls that NAFDAC was excluded from
security checks at the ports in 2011 and was reinstated on May 16, 2018.
Adeyeye noted that the agency would continue to work with relevant
government agencies to ensure that foods, drugs, chemicals and other
NAFDAC regulated products that pose danger to the population are
controlled at the point of entry.
