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11 Mar 2021
President Joe Biden’s nominee for Associate Attorney General, Vanita Gupta, owns between $11 million and $55 million of stock in her father’s company that sold acetic anhydride to Mexican cartels, which is used to make “high-grade ‘china white’ heroin and methamphetamine,” according to reports.
However, when Biden campaigned for president, his platform stated he would “hold accountable big Pharma companies, executives, and others responsible for their role in triggering the opioid crisis.” Noting that he intends to “[d]irect the U.S. Justice Department to make actions that spurred this crisis a top investigative and, where appropriate, civil and criminal enforcement priority.”
Tweets by Vanita Gupta, President Bidenâs nominee for Associate Attorney-General, came up March 9 when she appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearing, where she also received praise for her civil rights advocacy, reported IANS.
Gupta expressed regret for the tweets and said that she had âfallen preyâ to âthe rhetoric has gotten quite harsh over the last several years.â
âI wish I could take it back, I canât,â the Indian American added.
Gupta, who has broader support in both parties, faced questions about her past social media presence and statements in her quest for the third-highest position in the Justice Department where she will be in charge of civil and human rights issues, the IANS report said.
CBN invests N85.9bn in health sector
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By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has spent the sum of N85.89 billion on its Health Sector Intervention Facility (HSIF).
CBN governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this, in Abuja, yesterday, while disbursing the sum of N253.54 million to five researchers for the development of Nigerian COVID-19 vaccines and vaccines for other diseases.
Mr. Emefiele said: “The CBN has over time emphasized the need for us to move from a consumer-based economy to a more productive economy. To this, the bank has developed intervention programmes and schemes across various sectors including the health sector.