The order is coming less than three weeks after the NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, partly ascribed the drug abuse among youths to the unlawful importation of certain banned substances.
The agency said it received the notice on Wednesday via a letter from the office of the vice-president, as part of the presidential enabling business environment council (PEBEC) reforms.
It also said the order to return to the ports was to effectively control the importation of unregulated products, falsified and substandard drugs, unwholesome foods, narcotic drugs and hazardous chemical substances and foods.
“NAFDAC in collaboration with relevant ministries, departments and agencies and with the active support of the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), the presidential enabling business environment council, and the ministry of transport, has been returned to the seaports and borders to effectively control importation of unregulated products, falsified and substandard drugs, unwholesome foods, narcotic drugs and hazardous chemical substances and foods,” the statement read.
“NAFDAC received the notice on May 16, 2018, in a letter dated March 29, 2018, from the office of the Vice-President, as part of the PEBEC reforms.”
Adeyeye had said recently that thousands of Nigerians had died as a result of falsified and substandard medicines.
She had further stated that many were ill, most likely due to unwholesome foods, drugs and abuse of narcotics and controlled substances, such as codeine, tramadol and pentazocine.
“These are partly due to the exclusion of NAFDAC from our ports since 2011. The recent documentary on codeine abuse brought more attention to the issue,” she had said.
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