The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Moji Adeyeye, has said she returned to Nigeria to serve the country and restore the reputation of the agency, rather than enrich herself.
Mrs Adeyeye, a pharmacist and professor, stated this on Monday while responding to a journalist’s question about when she would resign from office.
The question initially drew laughter from the NAFDAC chief, but she subsequently used her response to recount her nine-year tenure, including the challenges she inherited and what she described as the transformation recorded by the agency under her leadership.
In a video of the encounter that has gone viral on social media, Mrs Adeyeye became visibly emotional as she spoke about the financial and operational challenges she encountered when she assumed office.
“When I got to NAFDAC, NAFDAC had maturity level one out of four. We had N3.2 billion in debt that I inherited,” she said.
