WELL DESERVED HONOUR:Association Wants Federal Gov't to Name NAFDAC Head Quarters Over Akunyili

On Sunday the Nigerian Association of Patent and Propriety Medicine Dealers Association (NAPPMED) urged the Federal Government to immortalize Prof. Dora Akunyili, former Director-General of NAFDAC. Mr Vincent Mammah, suggested that it would be befitting to name the NAFDAC headquarters after Akunyili in view of her outstanding contribution in the country’s war against fake and counterfeit drugs. "Prof Dora Akunyili, the former Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC) and Information Minister, was a global amazon who waged a successful war against fake drugs in Nigeria."

"She was a rare gem who fought the drug war with an unprecedented passion and patriotism, even at the risk of her own life. The late Mrs. Akunyili, in the process, saved the lives of many innocent Nigerians who would have died of fake and counterfeit drugs and so it would be befitting to name NAFDAC headquarters after her,” he said.

"Prior to Akunyili’s appointment as NAFDAC DG, the agency seemed to be non-existent, NAPPMED members did not know how genuine the drugs they were buying and selling from drug manufacturing companies. When she took over, she literally opened our eyes to the menace of fake and counterfeit drugs through her aggressive enlightenment campaign; so we keyed into her vision and collectively sanitised the system."