Adeyeye added that if it is a natural product, NAFDAC has a regulating system that gives listing approval for such product.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has dissociated herself from a recruitment notification currently in circulation on social media.
The NAFDAC boss said at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja that her attention was drawn to the activities of impostors and fraudulent individuals impersonating her via her social media accounts on Facebook and Linkedln.
Adeyeye said that the impostors, who were promising their victims employment in her name, were asking for money in exchange for the employment and other favours.
“This is a security breach. NAFDAC and the Director-General will never request for gratification to carry out its mandate.
“As a result of this, the social media account of the Director-General will no longer be in use until further notice. Members of the public are hereby advised to exercise due caution.
“The public should report any such activity to EFCC on +2348093322644, DSS on +2349153391309 for Nigeria.
“For international, you can call UK Interpol on +447971153192 or US Federal Bureau of Investigation on +1-800-225-5324,’’ Adeyeye said.
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The NAFDAC boss also said that the agency had not approved any medicine that could cure diabetes as against the circulating information that the government had approved some.
According to Adeyeye, if there is anyone that has been approved, the agency will let Nigerians know about it, so long such medicine is backed by science.
Adeyeye added that if it is a natural product, NAFDAC has a regulating system that gives listing approval for such product.
She said that such product would have to pass through clinical trials before approval could be given.
The DG also said that the agency had gone a step further by doing internet vigilance, especially in monitoring bleaching creams which she said were advertised on the internet.
Adeyeye said that some of the bleaching creams were substandard and could cause damage to the body organs.
She called on Nigerians to be aware and desist from such.