DAILY POST
The Nigeria Labour Congress,NLC, and it counterpart, Trade Union Congress, TUC, have called for the sack of the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, for allegedly colluding with multi-national companies to kill local companies involved in alcohol production in Nigeria.
The leaders of the NLC and TUC in Ogun State made the call during a protest against the decision of NAFDAC to stop the production of alcoholic products in sachet packages.
Recall that NAFDAC had banned the production, distribution and sales of alcoholic beverages in sachets, pet and glass bottles of 200ml and below.
Enforcing the ban, NAFDAC shut down some production factories for not complying with its directive. This has generated repeated protests by distillers and labour unions across the country.
Expressing their displeasure with the development both unions and members of the Food Beverages and Tobacco Senior Staff Association, FOBTOB, and the National Union of Food Beverages and Tobacco Employees, NUFBE, participated in the protest which took place at the Ogun State House of Assembly.
The protesters who were chanting solidarity songs were also armed with placards and banners with various inscriptions such as: “Sachet alcohol is not Nigeria’s problem”, “Our industries must not die of wicked policies MAN save our industries”, “NAFDAC don’t take away our work” and “Don’t create another problem, don’t make us jobless in this biting economy”, among others.
Addressing the Speaker of the Assembly, Hon. Oludaisi Elemide, the TUC chairman, Hakeem Lasisi, lamented that the ban would force over 500,000 workers out of job, while over N800 billion investment in the industry would be lost…
