The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has lamented the agency’s manpower shortage.
She said the agency is grossly understaffed to effectively regulate products consumed by over 240 million Nigerians.
Adeyeye, during an interview on Channels Television on Thursday, said NAFDAC currently operates with about 2,000 workers, a situation she described as inadequate compared with the country’s population.
She said a comparable country such as Indonesia, with a population of about 280 million people, has about 20,000 regulatory staff.
“We have been chronically short of staff in NAFDAC.
“We are 240 million people and we have 2,000 staff. A comparable country in Indonesia that has about 280 million people, they have 20,000 staff. That is the gap that we have been discussing in terms of closing,” she said.
The NAFDAC boss said the agency was not demanding the same workforce as
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