Nigeria needs another Mrs Dora Akunyili
in the health sector, may her soul continue to rest in peace. Mrs Dora Akunyili’s exist from the health
sector seems to have brought back the horrible old days of fake and poisonous medicines. May God save Nigeria.
Prof. Mrs
Justitia Nnabuko, complain about the influx of fake medical goods in pharmacy
and stores, the Prof who is the Dean, Faculty of Business Administration,
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, stated while delivering the 104th inaugural
lecture of the University.
The professor
of marketing regretted that despite committed efforts by the National Agency
for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, and other regulatory
agencies, some desperate businessmen were still flooding the country with
unwholesome products.
According to
her, “NAFDAC is rated as one of the top eighteen medical regulatory agencies in
the world and the fourth on the African continent. “However, monitoring of
pharmaceutical activities has not yielded the much-desired transparency in the
activities of drug firms as drug products assessment and registrations have not
been effectively achieved in the South-East states of Nigeria. “Many
pharmaceutical facilities and drug products were yet to receive authentic
registrations.
The lives of
the regulators had been threatened in the course of carrying out monitoring
operations”. While also lamenting the existence of, “so many quacks in the
marketing profession”, she observed that such persons were aiding fake drug
dealers by marketing same to the unsuspecting members of the public.
“Given that
lots of quackery takes place in business, there are ethical standards, which
marketers are expected to apply, but many people pushing products and services
are not professional marketers and many organizations use them. “So, I call on
the Federal Government, to make enabling laws to drive the implementation of
the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria’s mandate on regulating the
practice of all marketers in the country.
These people have no conscience
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