, Mojisola Adeyeye, has said the removal of its agency officials from the ports led to the influx of substandard drugs into the country.
Mrs Adeyeye stated this while defending the 2022 budgetary allocation to her agency before the House Committee on Health Services on Thursday. At the budget defence session, Mrs Adeyeye stated that NAFDAC ought to be inspecting commodities that fall within its mandate. She noted that the absence of the agency led to ‘cabals’ taking advantage of the situation to flood Nigeria with substandard goods.
She said NAFDAC needs more staff at the borders while lamenting the porous nature of Nigeria’s border corridor.
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