The recent public outcry by the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, regarding internal operational bottlenecks, has laid bare a dangerous vulnerability in Nigeria’s national security architecture. Beyond simple administrative delays, the systemic inefficiency and deep-seated corruption among public servants within the agency are actively undermining its core mandate. When a regulatory body tasked with safeguarding the food and medicine of over 200 million citizens is frustrated from within, it ceases to be an administrative issue, and has become instead a matter of national survival.
Bureaucratic sabotage: How corruption at NAFDAC endangers national security, By Umar Yakubu
