The President, Veterinary Council of Nigeria (VCN), an Assistant Inspector General of Police, Dr. Aishatu Baju, has reaffirmed the Council’s continued support and collaboration with all veterinarians and stakeholders in providing the enabling environment towards achieving and maintaining qualitative veterinary services for national development.
Dr. Baju noted that the VCN was taking major steps to improve the quality of veterinarians and veterinary paraprofessionals to align with the national reform agenda of President Bola Tinubu. He said these include having the veterinary seal, the veterinary app, digitised veterinary practice license and geomapping of veterinary practice premises aimed at addressing the menace of quackery in the profession and enhancing efficiency of veterinarians and veterinary paraprofessionals, even as she urged Nigerians to take full advantage of these innovations and work with the council to eradicate the scourge of quackery in Nigeria.
She added that these would strengthen animal disease control, improve food safety and hygiene in abattoirs and wholesomeness of foods of animal origin hence ensuring a healthy people and a healthy nation. The AIG maintained that the council was working on policies geared towards providing employment and other necessities for young veterinarians, either in public or private sectors of the economy. Meanwhile, the Acting Registrar, Veterinary Council of Nigeria, Dr. Oladotun Fadipe, during the oath-taking, disclosed that veterinary medicine “is a noble profession that doesn’t work with assumption, but facts and reality”.