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The
Director General, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr.
Rufus Ebegba, has debunked the information by some farmers that
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) have affected their farms, saying,
for now, there are no any GMO in the Nigerian environment.
Ebegba told
journalists in an interview in Abuja said nobody should panic because no
unsafe GMOs would be allowed into the country.
"There are no GMOs
being grown anywhere in the country, the ones we have in this country
are for experimental purpose, so there are no GMOs in any farm but if
anybody has any evidence of GMO, he should come and tell us and give us
specimens.
"Of late, some
groups parading themselves as representatives of civil societies and
farmers have been going around leading protests for the repeal of the
NBMA Act. There is no iota of truth in what they are saying," he said.
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