The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, on Wednesday raised the alarm over threats to her life and that of the agency’s staff.
Adeyeye called on the authorities to protect the operatives who daily navigate a great deal of hazards while carrying out their assigned responsibilities.
The NAFDAC boss also prescribed the death penalty for counterfeit and illicit drug peddlers in the country as a way of stemming the unwholesome practice.
Prof. Adeyeye addressed newsmen at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where she spoke on the agency’s recent large-scale enforcement operation across three major open drug markets in Onitsha, Aba, and Lagos, describing it as the biggest in NAFDAC’s history.
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She also disclosed that the value of the seized illicit and fake drugs was estimated at about N1 trillion.
The NAFDAC DG however called on the National Assembly to expedite action on the amendment of NAFDAC ACT NI LFN and Counterfeit and Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods C34 ACT to include LIFE SENTENCE & DEATH PENALTY in the penalties for crimes committed under these Acts.
“Many people are dying, and many have died as a result of the activities of fake drug peddlers.”
“With the signing into law of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) for the forfeiture of assets, the assets recovered from suspects will be treated as proceeds of crime after their conviction by the courts,” she said
