NAFDAC DG Alerts: ” There Are Plans To Kill Me”

By Adesina Soyooye 

The Director General  of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control, NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, has said that her life is on the line.

Prof Adeyeye said there is a plan to kill her over a Trillion Naira worth of drugs seized by NAFDAC in recent times. She says the seizure recently made by NAFDAC ranks as the biggest ever made in the history of NAFDAC. She named Aba, Onitsha and Idumota drug markets as the areas targeted by the recent operation by the Agency.

And it is not just her life alone that is on the line. She revealed that the life of every NAFDAC staff and   members of their families were in danger. She disclosed that they are in constant threat of either murdering them or kidnapping them.

For instance, there had been an attempt  life before. The son of a NAFDAC staff in Kano was kidnapped in a bid to hurt the family over his father’s job. Mercifully, he escaped before more harm could be done to him.

Prof. Adeyeye narrated her ordeal when she spoke to State House Reporters in Abuja. Given the situation, she appealed for adequate protection for the staff and families of the Agency as they have all become targets.

For her own protection, she said she has two Policemen assigned to her in her Abuja and Lagos homes. Inadequate as that number is, Adeyeye said she finds their presence uncomfortable, atimes, as it does not suit her lifestyle because she can no longer go to anywhere alone.

She said: “I told you about the attempted murder about six months ago. One of our staff members in Kano had his child kidnapped because he was doing his job. Fortunately, the child escaped. 

“For me, I have two Policemen living in my house 24/7 in Abuja and Lagos. I don’t have a life. I can’t go anywhere without Police escorts. That’s not my way of living, but I don’t have a choice because we must save our country. Nonetheless, I also use common sense.”

In the ongoing crack down on the merchants of death, Adeyeye said the Agency has seized fake and counterfeit pharmaceutical products worth over one trillion Naira, recently 

He disclosed that NAFDAC has seized 87 truck loads of expired, substandard medical products including USAID and UNFPA- donated antiretroviral, male and female condoms and other corrupted medical supplies.

Prof. Adeyeye re-emhasised her call for death penalty to be imposed on these merchants of death.

Recall that a former NAFDAC DG, late Professor Dora Akunyili, escaped death by whiskers when she was shot inside her car while she was in office as DG. She later died of cancer years later.