Mohammed Shosanya
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) has expressed its willingness to partner with South East Governors to creat industrial hub for the Igbos.
The new South East Zonal Director of NAFDAC, Pharm Martins Iluyomade,who stated this on Thursday during a media parley with Journalists in Enugu,described south east as the economic heartbeat of Nigeria.
He said:”My mission is to help harness all those potentials, to make sure that we are able to produce what cannot only be use locally by getting NAFDAC approval but also things we can export and this will lead to economy growth for our country.
“As South East Governor are forming a block with their several meetings to create lasting peace and generate economic activities. We will partner with the south East governors on some programmes to create industrial hub for the people in the region.
“I want to assure you that if that initiative is properly done, China will come and learn from us in the south East.
“We will send them our proposal as we are ready to assist them when they are setting factories that will produce original products in order create employment opportunity for the people,” he said
He advised companies to always produce standard and safety products
He said: “We are ready to partner with production companies in South East to produce standard products that everybody can use. For those people with the brain to manufacture imitation products, the same brain can be use to produce original products.
“My job is to assist them transit from imitation to original because they have brain to do it” he added