The National Assembly has promised to address the poor funding of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
Senate President Bukola Saraki was responding to concerns raised by the NAFDAC Director-General Prof. Moji Adeyeye when she visited him in his office in Abuja.
Saraki described the director-general as an accomplished professional with a distinguished career, urging her to bring her wealth of experience to bear in her new assignment.
Prof. Adeyeye appealed for increased budgetary allocation to the agency. She said the agency was burdened by a myriad of challenges which limit its effective performance and discharge of its statutory function of safeguarding public health.
While promising to rejuvenate the war against counterfeit products in spite of dwindling finances, she called on the National Assembly to urgently address the issue of overlapping functions to avoid frictions with other egencies.
The House of Representatives also acknowledged that NAFDAC could only perform optimally with improved funding for its regulatory activities.
Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Healthcare Services were at the Headquarters of NAFDAC on oversight function . They pledged to look at how they could wade in to ensure that NAFDAC ‘s activities were not hindered by poor funding.