The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC has that only capital punishment will deter drug peddlers .
The Director General of NAFDAC, Mojisola Adeyeye made this known on Friday’s edition of Channels Television’s The Morning Brief.
According to her, somebody bought children’s medicine for N13,000 or something like that, another person was selling about N3,000 in the same mall,” the NAFDAC boss said.
“That raised an alarm. Guess what, the NAFDAC ask? There was nothing inside that medicine when we tested it in our Kaduna lab. So, I want the death penalty.
“Because you don’t need to put a gun on the head of a child before you kill that child. Just give that child bad medicine,” Adeyeye said
The NAFDAC DG ( MOJISOLA ADEYEYE) is also seeking the cooperation of the judiciary and the National Assembly to make such a move a reality. According to her, the agency is open to partnering with lawmakers and other stakeholders on the matter.
“You cannot fight substandard, falsified medicine in isolation. The agency can do as much as it can but if there is no deterrent, there’s going to be a problem,” she said.
