BISHOPS DECLARES NAFDAC DOESN'T HAVE RIGHT TO REGULATE SPIRITUAL PRODUCTS
A group of Bishops have declared that the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control( NAFDAC) does not have power to regulate spiritual products.
The Bishops, numbering over seven, made the declaration when they led protesters on Tuesday, to NAFDAC office in Asaba Town, the Delta State capital.
It was a protest in solidarity with Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin, the founder and Senior prophet of Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministry (CMDM), Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria.
As protesters drawn from Fufeyin’s Church and other Christian faiths, they besieged the NAFDAC office calling on NAFDAC to refrain from attacks on the Senior Prophet over his spiritual products.
The protesters also displayed different inscriptions on placards while defying the heavy rain as they registered their grievance over the attack on the senior prophet.
The Metropolitan Archbishop of the Charismatic Anglican Church of Nigeria, Samuel Baaba who spoke on behalf of the protesters, cautioned NAFDAC on spiritual matters.
Baaba said, “We are men of God and we are here in solidarity to send a message to NAFDAC to refrain from its step over spiritual matters.
“NAFDAC does not have the right to regulate spiritual products. There is a limit to what people can do especially when it comes to matters of faith”
Also speaking, Rector Union Theological Institute and Seminary, Port Harcourt, Evangelical Church, Calixtus and Most Celestine Ewurum said they were only interested in the issue that concerned items that are spiritual.
“To the best of my knowledge and which I have read through the NAFDAC Act, 2004, if there is an amendment, I don’t know, where it could regulate the spiritual product.
“NAFDAC don’t have right to declare the products fake when it never tested the product, NAFDAC should out clearly what is wrong with the water."
On Sunday, the NAFDAC’s Director General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye alerted Nigerians on the activities of a faith-based organisation, Christ Mercy Land Delivery Ministries, led by Prophet Jeremiah Fufeyin, using the agency’s name to deceive the unsuspecting public
She said none of the products (Miracle & Healing Water, River Jordan Water, among others were registered with NAFDAC, advising the public to stop patronising any of the miracle products.
