The Federal Government has announced the exemption of boards of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NAFDAC, and that of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control, NAFDAC, from those earlier dissolved on Monday by President Bola Tinubu.
The exemption clarification is contained in a statement Tuesday night signed by Willie Bassey, Director, Information on behalf of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator George Akume, in Abuja.
"Further to the directive on the dissolution of Boards of Federal Government Parastatals, Agencies, Institutions and Government-owned Companies, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation has clarified that the Boards of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control (NAFDAC) are exempted from such dissolution," the statement reads.
President Tinubu, on Monday ordered the dissolution of boards of all Federal Government parastatals, agencies, Institutions, and government-owned Companies
The directive however exempted boards commissions, and councils listed in the thir schedule, part one section 153 (i) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from the president’s directive.
As such, the Nigeria Judicial Council, Code of Conduct Bureau; Council of State; Federal Character Commission; Federal Civil Service Commission; Independent National Electoral Commission; National Population Commission; Police Service Commission; and Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission are part of the agencies excluded from the section of the constitution.