Skip to main content

NAFDAC D-G warns staff against bribery, corruption

Image
By

 The acting Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration And Control, NAFDAC, Mrs Yetunde Oni, yesterday warned staff of the agency to maintain the highest level of discipline by shunning bribery and corruption which she said had stagnated growth in the country.

Oni spoke at a sensitization workshop on anti-corruption, SERVICOM and gender disparity for employees of the agency in the Southeast geopolitical zone as well as Legal and Food Safety and Applied Nutrition departments of the agency. The zone consists of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States.

The NAFDAC boss was represented on the occasion by the Director, Special Duties, NAFDAC, Dr Abubakar Jimoh.

According to her, the agency would continue to ensure that any incident of corrupt practice in the agency was promptly dealt with and asked them to ensure high level of compliance with anti-corruption guidelines to avoid trouble.

“We expect that the participants will work out with all that they have learnt with a view to improving all the services within the system as well as removing all forms of corrupt practices and deliver, optimally to ensure safety and health of the nation,” she added.

Also, the Head of Department, Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Department of ICPC, Mr. Akeem Lawal, said in his own lecture that morality was important in all facets of the activities of NAFDAC staff, even as he urged them to display very high level of intelligence, competence and professionalism in the field.

In her welcome remarks on the occasion, a senior staff from the Reform Unit of the agency, Mrs. Joan Abaagu, said that corruption had become a cancerous growth in many facets of the nation’s life, stressing that NAFDAC had since embraced the Federal Government’s anti-corruption crusade.

Abaagu said that the workshop was aimed at warning staff over corrupt tendencies which could compromise NAFDAC in its fight against fake and counterfeit drugs.

Meanwhile, other issues discussed included “ethics and compliance in workplace, Elements and Gamut of investigation and freedom of information as a weapon for combating corruption in the society.”

He said that the agency had developed a blue-print to combat the sale of fake drugs, especially the anti-malaria drugs by the use of what is called “scratch and text the pin number to confirm” their originalities.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Post

Liverpool have their own miracle, Klopp

By
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has warned his side against complacency as they prepare to cross swords with Maribor in the Champions League on Wednesday, two weeks after pummelling the Slovenians 7-0. Klopp delved into the history books to underline the lesson for the five-time European champions as they try to take a decisive step towards qualification from Group E. In the 1954 World Cup the much-fancied Hungary, featuring Ferenc Puskas and Sandor Kocsis, beat the then West Germany team 8-3 in the group stages, only for the Germans to exact revenge in the final as they came from 2-0 down to win 3-2. Such was the achievement it was made into a 2003 film: “The Miracle of Bern”. Liverpool have their own miracle — when they recovered from 3-0 down to win the Champions League final in 2005 — and Klopp is well aware that football can be unpredictable. “I am from Germany so I know in 1954 we lost against Hungary in the group stage really clear then won the World Cup final,” he sai...
Post a Comment
Read more

Nigerians’ll help us choose their best Presidential candidate - PDP

By
As the competition for the presidential ticket of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party gets stiffer in the run -up to the 2019 general elections , the party has said that it will rely on Nigerians to help the party choose its candidate for the presidential election . The National Publicity Secretary of the party , Mr . Kola Ologbondiyan said the party had heard that many people , including a former Vice -President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar ; Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki ; Sokoto State Governor , Aminu Tambuwal ; his colleague in Gombe State, Ibrahim Dankwambo; and a former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso , were interested in picking its presidential ticket. He , however , said the decision to rely on Nigerians was premised on the party ’ s determination to avoid past mistakes , impunity and imposition of candidates . According to Ologbondiyan , the party is not backing any of those in line to get its presidential ticket. Others interested in getting the party ’ s ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Pope Francis goes to Egypt

By
Pope Francis will Friday leave the Vatican for  Cairo, Egypt at the invitation of both President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar University, the most important institution of learning in the world of Sunni Islam. The Egyptian President  visited the Vatican in November, 2014, while Tayeb visited last year May. Francis will arrive in Cairo on Friday afternoon and will leave 27 hours later. Expectedly he will meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, grand imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb and the country’s Coptic Pope Tawadros. The only other visit of a Roman Catholic pope to Egypt was by Pope John Paul II in 2000. He did not meet with leaders at Al-Azhar but, after a brief sojourn in Cairo, traveled to Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, believed to contain the site of the burning bush seen by Moses. Francis’ trip will not just be promoting dialogue among different religions, but among different sects of Christianity as well. In addition to...
Post a Comment
Read more