@MrMekzy_ If it’s true she attended Madonna, I hope she mentioned in this interview how she was able to school at Madonna despite her supposed poor background.
@Joy4u10@OurFavOnlineDoc @diponet11 This is not about APC government alone it’s about everyone who has failed woefully in what they were expected to do after being placed in a position of leadership. Both the past and present leadership are to be blamed.
NAFDAC was one of the organisations I studied for my PhD between 2009 and 2012.
I had the privilege of interviewing the late, great, Prof Dora Akunyili. I remember the interview as if it happened yesterday because I interviewed her at home and she insisted on cooking breakfast for my driver while he waited.
In 2003, the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development reported that 80% of drugs on sale in Lagos were fake.
The incidence of fake drugs is officially reported to have reduced from 41% in 2002, through to 16% in 2006, to 10% in 2011. It was expected to fall to 8% by 2013.
In opinion ratings in Nigeria, NAFDAC was rated to be the most effective government agency in Nigeria for 3 years in a row. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime also rated Nigeria as West Africa's most effective drug control country, and commended the work of NAFDAC.
Fast forward to 2022, NAFDAC came out to say that the prevalence of fake drugs is 15%, not 70% as some researchers had claimed.
Even at 15%, you would have noticed a retrogression from the 10% it was in 2011.
And even if NAFDAC’s 2022 claim that fake drugs are at 15% is correct, what about its other roles to regulate food, drinks, water and cosmetics?
I suspect that public perception of prevalence of counterfeit food, drinks and cosmetics would be very near the 80% it was exactly 20 years ago.
I study public governance and pockets of effectiveness in dysfunctional States. To see NAFDAC retrogress in this way seriously challenges any notion that islands of excellence can withstand the general sea of dysfunction for very long, without a deliberate effort by successive administrations to deliberately seek out and appoint the same kind of person that first turned around the organization in the first place.
Some functions should be immune from politics and patronage. End.
@phaytee_doll @DrOlufunmilayo This is exactly how my wedding went down. My parents did all the spending since 95% of the guests are from our parents end.