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The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has rejected the appointment of Ahmed Tijjani Mora because the Chairman for the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN).

The PSN made its place recognized in an open letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari by the incumbent President, Sam Ohuabunwa, and co-signed by earlier heads of the physique.

Within the letter, PSN claimed that Mora is just not match to occupy the place of as a result of he falls in need of the moral necessities for the submit and there are a number of controversial points surrounding his profession.

Based on the letter, Mora was reportedly sacked as Director of Pharmaceutical Providers by the Kaduna State Authorities. He was additionally pressured out as Registrar and Secretary of the Pharmacists Council in 2011, after an try and elongate his tenure after the two-term restrict.

The PSN is, due to this fact, in search of the permission of the federal authorities to appoint three individuals by means of the Federal Ministry of Well being from which a Chairman may be chosen.

Learn the total letter beneath:

An Open Letter to His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, President, Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

June 14, 2020
His Excellency
President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR
Aso Rock Villa
Abuja.
Your Excellency,

REJECTION OF A. T. MORA AS CHAIRMAN PHARMACISTS COUNCIL OF NIGERIA (PCN)

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) is the umbrella skilled affiliation of all
Registered Pharmacists in Nigeria comprising Hospital & Admin., Neighborhood, Industrial and
Educational Pharmacists.

2. We stay one of many oldest skilled our bodies having been included since 1927 in
addition to being rated constantly as the most effective organized skilled associations in
our nation.

3. Current occasions almost about the appointment of a Chairman for the Pharmacists Council
of Nigeria (PCN) which received to a climax of the absurd have necessitated this open letter to Mr.
President and shoppers of Well being in Nigeria.

4. To allow Your Excellency admire the gravity of this distasteful episode inflicted on the
Pharmacy career since 2019 and which has acquired complete briefing of the incumbent Hon. Minister of Well being, Dr. Osagie Ehanire and the Secretary to the Authorities of the
Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha, we have now determined to succeed in out to Your Excellency by means of this
medium, as a result of earlier efforts to succeed in haven’t been profitable.

5. We’re compelled to succeed in out to Your Excellency in each the general public {and professional} curiosity on issues referring to the skilled conduct of Pharm. A. T. Mora who In our view is
not match to occupy the place of the Chairman of the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN)
particularly below a authorities that’s preaching probity and integrity.

6. The PCN Act was initially crafted as Decree 91 of 1992 which has now metamorphosed
into Cap P.17 LFN 2004. Part 1(1)(d) of the enabling Act offers the PCN a selected approbation in regulation to control and management Pharmacy Observe in all its features and ramifications in
Nigeria. The three main thrusts of the Council revolve round Observe (Part 1(1) (d)), Schooling and Coaching (Part 1(1) (a)) and Disciplinary Issues (Part 17 (1-6)).

7. The totality of those mandates due to this fact presumes that principal actors and members of the
PCN should be above board.

8. We’re anxious that Pharm. A. T. Mora has fallen in need of the moral necessities for this
necessary skilled place as Chairman of the PCN. The mirrored examples of unethical
conduct dedicated by Pharm. A. T. Mora will suffice and so they embody:

A. UNAUTHORIZED ALTERATION OF PORTIONS OF THE PCN ACT IN PCN’S
COMPILATION OF PHARMACY, DRUG & RELATED LAWS AND RULES IN NIGERIA IN 2009

The above referenced doc is the live-wire and a obligatory regulatory software for Practising/Registered Pharmacists and college students in Schools of Pharmacy in Nigeria. Pharm. A. T.
Mora altered this doc in his period as Registrar/Secretary in sure features to serve his
private agenda on the PCN.

Particularly, we consider that A. T. Mora, in his bid to maneuver himself into the place of
Secretary of the Investigating Panel of the PSN brought on a change to the provisions in Part 17
(3) (4) which within the authentic gazette states inter-alia “the panel shall be appointed by the council and shall consist of 4 members of the council and one member who is just not a member of
the council” to learn in his personal model “the panel shall encompass members of Council and one
member who is just not a member of council”. The Registrar (Pharm. A. T. Mora at the moment) then
went forward and named himself Secretary of the Investigation Panel. This was to subvert the
spirit of Part 17(3) (4) which didn’t give room for an incumbent Registrar to emerge as
Secretary of the Investigative Panel of PCN.

This norm is premised on the precept that the Registrar, who’s statutorily the Secretary of
the Disciplinary Tribunal (Part 8(2)), can’t even be a part of the preliminary investigative
course of with a purpose to assure truthful listening to to individuals referred to the Tribunal by the Investigative Panel.

When the PSN observed this obvious forgery, the matter was reported to the then Federal Ministry of Well being (FMOH) below Prof. Christian Chukwu who was Well being Minister in 2011. When
he confirmed this anomaly, he directed the PCN to cease additional publication and gross sales of the
solid and mutilated publication. This was a most embarrassing scenario, unbecoming of a
Skilled Pharmacist and senior Authorities official that ordinarily demanded a stiff punishment.

B. MORA’S ROLE IN CHANGING THE NAMES OF PSN’S STATUTORY NOMINATIONS TO THE PCN COUNCIL IN 2009 AND HIS SUBSEQUENT EFFORTS TO
COVER UP

Your Excellency, we have now protested and produced evidence-based paperwork to indicate that
Pharm. A. T. Mora manipulated by substituting the PSN listing of its representatives on PCN
Council with a listing of his cronies on the workplace of the SGF in 2009. The PSN is by Legislation required
to submit its listing of eight representatives to the PCN however A.T Mora singlehandedly changed the
listing along with his personal personally drawn up listing, thereby thwarting the authority of the Pharmaceutical Society to current its nominees as required by regulation. In impact he subverted the facility and
authority of the Society.

This matter generated quite a lot of bother and confusion in 2009 resulting in the Nationwide Council
of PSN stripping Pharm. A. T. Mora of the Fellowship Award of the PSN in addition to inserting him
on the PSN Roll of Dishonour. These selections of the Nationwide Council of the PSN was subsequently ratified by the AGM of the PSN in November, 2009.

The decision of the AGM stands until date, regardless of Pharm. A. T. Mora’s futile makes an attempt to reverse the status-quo by means of litigations which he instituted towards the Society and later tried
to withdraw in 2015. The PSN rejected makes an attempt to withdraw the matter on the Federal Excessive
Courtroom, Lagos, as a result of the listening to had gone very far and we wished to have a judicial pronouncement on his case. The matter was later struck out by the court docket with prices to AT. Mora.

The choice to position Pharm. A. T. Mora on the Roll of Dishonour subsists and it’s due to this fact
unimaginable that the FG having been duly knowledgeable will insist on appointing such an individual
as Chairman of a Regulatory Company that regulates and controls the career of Pharmacy
in Nigeria.

The Chairman of the PCN is statutorily the Chairman of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the career. Essentially, how will an individual who’s listed on the constitutionally supplied Roll
of Dishonour of a career be charged with disciplinary obligations in the identical career?
Your Excellency, this is without doubt one of the main issues within the Mora Saga which your administration must resolve as soon as and for all for posterity.

C. MANY CONTROVERSIES SURROUNDING PHARM. A. T. MORA’S CAREER
PATHWAY

There are simply too many controversial points surrounding A. T. Mora’s profession pathway. Ordinarily,
These wouldn’t trouble us, however as a result of he’s anticipated to carry very sacred duty as
Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee (if he’s confirmed as PCN Chairman), whose pronouncements carry the load of a court docket of regulation, it’s in the very best curiosity of the Pharmacy career and certainly the Nigerian Public that we draw consideration to a few of these to allow the
Authorities that promotes integrity have a greater understanding of Pharm. A. T. Mora’s background and will want to confirm their authenticity.

• He was reported to have been sacked as Director of Pharmaceutical Providers by the Kaduna State Authorities.

• He was sacked because the MD/CEO of Zaria Prescription drugs, producers of Zarinject
Syringes by the Ahmed Markarfi Authorities of Kaduna State.

• He was pressured out as Registrar/Secretary of the Pharmacists Council in 2011, after a
tortuous battle with the PSN in his effort to elongate his tenure after the two-term restrict
of Four years every totaling Eight years. This battle went as much as Head of Service (HOS), Secretary
to the Authorities of the Federation (SGF) and at last to the Vice President (VP) earlier than
he was compelled to retire in 2011.

• A. T. Mora was pressured to exit because the “Dean” of an unaccredited Pharmacy School in
Kaduna State College. The School educated Three successive Pharmacy pupil teams
who handed by means of the Establishment however they may not be given Provisional registration
by the PCN as a result of the School couldn’t be accredited with a “Dean” who didn’t have
the next diploma in core Pharmaceutical Sciences. When Mora refused all entreaties to
get him depart peacefully so {that a} certified Pharmacy tutorial might take over and
qualify the School for accreditation in order that the harmless college students, whose future had
been positioned in jeopardy, could possibly be allowed to graduate, he was pressured to exit by a brand new
Council of the College.

• Immediately, Pharm. Mora parades himself as the primary Professor of Medical Pharmacy in Nigeria with no PhD in Medical Pharmacy or the core Pharmaceutical Sciences. He’s
stated to have a PhD in Administration from a College in Sokoto State however grew to become a
Professor of Medical Pharmacy in Igbinedion College, Okada, after solely about 5
years in full-time tutorial work (2012-2017). That is unprecedented and provides room
for doubt. We consider that this must be investigated by the FG particularly at a time
the NUC talks of the existence of pretend Professors in Nigeria.

9. Ought to these type of tales with innuendos be circulating in regards to the Chairman of PCN
Council?

10. Commentary

The PSN observes with satisfaction a seeming tendency to nominate match and correct individuals as
Chairman of the PCN which is a parastatal of the FMOH that regulates and controls Pharmacy
in all features and ramifications which due to this fact grounds the PCN because the template of ethics and
values of the Pharmacy career. Within the circumstance, our pedigree and heritage are decided by the ethical and moral high quality of the one who is appointed Chairman of the Governing Council of the PCN.

From all of the proof adduced above, it’s our view that Pharm. A. T. Mora carries a heavy
ethical and moral burden which gravely damages his suitability for the sacred job of Chairman
of the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN).
Our Prayers

1. We strongly enjoin the Federal Authorities to proceed its custom of consulting with
the PSN as a part of due diligence to make sure high quality management of individuals who emerge as
Chairman of the PCN.

2. We due to this fact strongly attraction that PSN be allowed to supply Three nominees by means of the
Federal Ministry of Well being from which the FG will make a reputable alternative as Chairman.
Alternatively, the President can appoint another Pharmacist from the identical zone with
AT. Mora. It might curiosity the President to notice that the Particular person the PSN initially beneficial to the Minister as Chairman is Pharm (Alhaji )Yaro Budah FPSN, mni, who
truly was nominated by the Minister of Well being to the SGF in a letter dated Could 2018.

In one other mysterious means one other letter dated October 2018 with the identical reference
no was written by the identical Minister of Well being to the SGF nominating Pharm A.T Mora.
Two letters nominating two completely different individuals with the identical reference quantity signed by
the identical particular person with none reference to the earlier letter!!!

3. Within the interim, we strongly enjoin the FG to indefinitely droop or cancel the inauguration of the PCN Governing Council with Pharm. A. T. Mora as Chairman for the explanations earlier said. We consider that whoever is careless with the reality in small issues
can’t be trusted with necessary issues. The Buhari Administration is believed to
promote integrity and braveness over consolation and sentiments.

4. We due to this fact, in unequivocal phrases, demand that Pharm. A. T. Mora shouldn’t be inaugurated as Chairman, Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) by the Federal Ministry
of Well being (FMOH).

Lastly Your Excellency, The President and Previous Presidents of the PSN from 1991 up to now (9 in
quantity) who’re principally very Distinguished Elders Statesmen have determined to attract your consideration to this matter as a result of if the Minister goes forward to inaugurate A.T. Mora on June 15,
2020 as Chairman of the PCN, we’re afraid that it might appear like the Authorities needs to
disrupt the integrity and Peace within the Pharmacy Occupation which might result in the next:

1. A name on all Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists in Authorities Hospitals, Neighborhood and Industrial Pharmacists within the Personal Sector to proceed on a complete strike and
withdrawal of their companies. For the information, this may have an effect on the logistics of manufacturing and provide of important in addition to different Pharmaceutical Care Providers and medicines to
your complete Well being System together with the Isolation Centres that cater for COVID-19 circumstances
in Nigeria.

2. A directive to all Registered Pharmacists to boycott all actions of the PCN forthwith.
It will embody Obligatory Continued Skilled Growth (MCPD), registration of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical premises in addition to different routine statutory actions of the PCN.

3. Solicitation of the help of all different healthworkers for solidarity motion to withstand this
imposition on the Pharmacists in Nigeria that will sign an inadvertent transfer to destroy skilled ethics and integrity.
Conclusion

Your Excellency, it to keep away from any of the above situations from taking part in out at the moment the Nation
is in well being disaster, that we have now constantly urged the Minister of Well being, Dr Osagie Ehanire to not proceed with this inauguration.

It’s each a tragedy and travesty of justice that relatively than redress this inherent misnomer by
appointing one other ethically inclined Pharmacist from the pool of over 25,000 Pharmacists,
lots of whom who’re above the 15 12 months post-qualification situation precedent supplied in
regulation, the FMOH by means of Dr. Enahire is bent on forcing Pharm. Mora on the career of Pharmacy.

The PSN assures the FG of its willingness to repeatedly accomplice Authorities in any respect ranges in
guaranteeing credible healthcare supply within the optimum public curiosity when the anomalies at PCN
are correctly redressed. We’re persuaded that Mr President won’t permit this travesty which
might destroy the skilled self-discipline and concord in Pharmacy to prevail.

Please settle for the assurances of our benevolence and honest regards Your Excellency.

Yours faithfully,

Pharm. (Mazi) Sam Ohuabunwa OFR, FPSN, FPCPharm., FNAPharm.
President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria

Dr. Philip Emafo OON FPSN, FPCPharm.
President, 1991 – 1994

Senator (Woman) Eme Ekaette MFR FPSN, FPCPharm.
President, 1997 – 2000

Pharm (Alhaji) Mohammed Yaro Budah FPSN, FPCPharm., FNAPharm. mni
President, 2000 – 2003

Pharm. (Dr.) U. N. O. Uwaga FPSN, FPCPharm., FNAPharm., FNIM, mni
President, 2003 – 2006

Pharm. (Sir) Anthony Akhimien FPSN, FPCPharm., FNAPharm., FNIM, mni
President, 2006 – 2009

Pharm. Azubike Okwor FPSN, FPCPharm., FNAPharm., FNIM, FFIP
President, 2009 – 2012

Pharm. Olumide Akintayo FPSN, FPCPharm., FNAPharm., FNIM, FFEPON
President, 2012 – 2015

Pharm. Ahmed Yakasai FPSN, FPCPharm., FNAPharm., FNIM
President, 2015 – 2018