The Director-General of the National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC Prof. Christiana Mojisola Adeyeye says her administration has brought good infrastructure, equipment, and a conducive work environment for staff and accessible office locations for stakeholders.
According to her, at the time she assumed office, most of the NAFDAC offices were situated in Federal Secretariats within the states or rented apartments which were not good enough for the corporate image of the agency and in most cases difficult for MEMEs and other stakeholders to access.
The Director-General expressed these views while commissioning the Ilorin office of the agency.
The NAFDAC boss revealed that with the support of the Presidency, National Assembly, and the NAFDAC Governing Council, the agency commenced the building of state offices across the country out of which seven (7) have been completed and are in the process of commissioning.
She disclosed that the management under her supervision had “embarked on a journey of strengthening the processes of the agency through the establishment, implementation, and continual improvement of the Quality Management System in NAFDAC.
Prof Adeyeye stated that “the agency has transitioned over the years to a robust platform for institutionalising resourceful leadership, enhance-based decision-making, and engagement of a trained and competent workforce for effective customer-focused delivery of regulatory services.”
The agency boss also revealed that it achieved by attaining a maturity level 3 in the WHO Global Benchmarking Tools, placing the NAFDAC among the recognized regulatory agencies in the world.
“It is pertinent to state here that these huge achievements would not have been possible without a committed and dedicated workforce and a very supportive governing council,” she said.
Prof. Adeyeye, while thanking the Kwara State Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, and the people of the state for the support NAFDAC has enjoyed, vowed that the agency would not rest on its oars but work assiduously towards the attainment of Maturity level 4 and sustenance of its development strides.
In her remarks at the event, the agency’s coordinator for South West Zone, Mrs Rose Ajayi explained how the construction of the new state office was achieved, saying that the state government gave the agency the piece of land in 2008 for free.
Ajayi disclosed that the land was given to them during her tenure as the State Coordinator while the DG’s first visit to the state in 2018, helped towards achieving their goal of constructing the building.
According to her, “she promised to construct a state office on the land and the construction began in 2020, but by 2021 I had to hand over to Mr Kenneth Azikwe as the new State Coordinator and today the commissioning of our dream state office is done.”
Dominica Nwabufo
