January 07, (THEWILL) – Kate Ikechi Isa is not only the founder of Katchey Group of Companies but also one of the people that made it possible for late Dora Akunyili to achieve the great successes she recorded in her fight against fake drugs and substandard products as the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). This much the late amazon revealed in one of her public speeches.
At that time, Akunyili knew that the NAFDAC laboratory network was critical to ensure that no result could be successfully contested. Her search for a Crown Agent in Nigeria led her to Katchey Laboratories and with an exclusive supply agreement that was approved by the then President Obasanjo, Katchey Laboratories proceeded to re-equip and modernise NAFDAC’s laboratory network across the country.
Katchey Laboratories, with an offshoot in Los Angeles and another in London, is Nigeria’s first internationally accredited independent analytical laboratory. This independent analytical lab has satisfied the required ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) audit. ANAB, based in the USA, is one of the top two accreditation bodies in the world that ensures the quality of analytical laboratory tests.
The laboratory, which remarkably is also the only currently active ANAB accredited laboratory in sub-Saharan Africa, offers testing services to support different sectors of the economy, including pharmaceutical, food and beverage, agribusiness, environmental, oil and gas, forensics and human genomics, research and evelopment, among others. For this and other reasons, she was conferred with a Doctor of Science degree by Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo.
A graduate of Computer Science from the University of Lagos and an MBA from Harvard Business School, Kate started out by selling computer accessories before expanding her frontiers. The first female President of the Scientific Products Association of Nigeria (SPAN) is happily married to Abdulrazaq Isa, the Chairman of Waltersmith Petroman Oil Limited and two-time governorship aspirant in Kogi State.
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