The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has proposed the death penalty for drug peddlers.

According to the Director-General of the agency Mojisola Adeyeye, only stiff penalties will deter peddlers especially when it leads to the death of children.

“Somebody bought children’s medicine for N13,000 or something like that, another person was selling about N3,000 in the same mall,” the NAFDAC chief said on Friday’s edition of Channels Television’s The Morning Brief.

“That raised an alarm. Guess what? There was nothing inside that medicine when we tested it in our Kaduna lab. So, I want the death penalty.

“Because you don’t need to put a gun on the head of a child before you kill that child. Just give that child bad medicine,” Adeyeye said.