The newly appointed Director-General of the National Biosafety Management Agency of Nigeria (NBMA), Dr Agnes Asagbra has been urged to build on the agency’s already laid foundation.
This would ensure a greater goal and achievement for the agency.
The outgoing Director-General of the agency, Dr Rufus Ebegba, stated this in Abuja during the handing over ceremony of the incoming director-general in Abuja.
He also called on the staff of the agency to remain committed and work diligently with the new DG to ensure the Agency achieved its mandate.
While commending staff of the agency for their dedication to work in the past eight years since the inception of the Agency, Dr Ebegba urged them to put in their best.
He said the agency owns Nigeria the duty to ensures that it gives Nigeria what it takes to grow economically.
He also commended the media for their reportage during his tenure as the director-general of the Agency of the National Biosafety Management Agency of Nigeria.
“I have be quoted out of context severally but I was never afraid to talk to the press because that was the only way we could clear ourselves from some allegations,” he said.
The newly appointed director general of the agency, Dr Agnes Asagbra while appreciating the outgoing DG for his effort said she was ready to work with the staff of the agency to take the agency to the a greater heights.
She however solicited for the support of the staff of the agency to work, saying that her administration would also bring in more international collaboration into the organisation.
Dr, Asagbra added that the work of biosafety will continue because the government is particular about the people, animal and the environment.
Before her appointment as director general of the NBMA, Dr Asagbra was the Assistant Director General at Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi in Lagos state southwest Nigeria.
