Assistant Director, NAFDAC in charge of Veterinary Medicine Division, Dr. Sadiq Yunus, has charged Nigerians to look inward in solving the current dwindling economy by producing their requirements and shun foreign goods that have local substitutes.

“With our present depressing economy, Nigerians should not allow the country continue to be a dumping ground for foreign finished products that have substitutes here,” he stressed.

Dr. Yunus, leading a team of NAFDAC top officials, was speaking yesterday at a one-day training/sensitization workshop on production and post production handling of antibiotics, vitamins and agrochemicals, organized by NAFDAC in conjunction with Association of Animal Health and Agrochemical Producers, held at Ijegun near Ikotun, Lagos.

The NAFDAC boss explained that the economic problem was an opportunity for Nigerians to brace up and develop their local industries and save the nation’s hard-earned foreign exchange from depletion. He emphasized that their production must pass NAFDAC tests and regulations and meet international standards and practice.