Legalize Your Profession-Sada

To contribute meaningfully to the realization of the transformation agenda of the present administration, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc .Musa Mohammed Sada has charged dieticians in the country to legalize their profession.

The Minister gave the charge when he received a delegation of officials of Nigeria Dietetic Association who paid him a working visit in his office.

The delegation which included the wife of the Minister, Hajia Hadiza Sada was led by the National Auditor of the association, Alhaji Abdulhadi Abdulkadir who represented the National President of the association Professor Elizabeth Chibuzor .

Arc Musa Mohammed Sada noted the importance of dietetic profession to the realization of the transformation agenda, urging dieticians to regulate and use the laudable profession in educating the masses on the need to eat in a healthy way which will go a long way at improving their level of productivity.

He also advised the government on the need to establish dietetic units in all government establishments for the purpose of educating workers on how to manage their eating habits.

The Minister expressed appreciation for the visit, saying that, professionalism is the hall mark of the present administration.

He said ‘The country is heading toward regularization of the rule of law, it is moving towards ensuring that it would not have any dealing with anything that has no legal backing’.

He explained that with varied professions having instruments of law backing them, each profession would move forward thereby contributing significantly to the transformation agenda of the government.

The Minister assured the association of the ministry’s readiness to offer necessary assistance in its bid to regulate the dietetic profession.

In the word of the Minister ‘’I must encourage you that it is very important thing for you to get the law to back you up’’.

Earlier in his remark, the President of the association, Prof.Elizabeth Chibuzor who was represented by the association’s National Auditor, Alhaji Abdulhadi Abdulkadir said the purpose of their visit was to introduce the association as well as seek for the support of the minister on the proposed bill for the association to have a regulatory body.

Professor Chibuzor explained that one of the objectives of dietetic profession was to create awareness on the need for people to live a healthy life.

She decried lack of man- power in the profession, saying that, there was a record of about 137 million cases of diabetes in the country which are basically related to diets.

She therefore sought for the support of the Minister in ensuring that the proposed bill of the association is well disposed to when presented at the National Assembly.