FG denies importing genetically modified rice
The Federal Government has denied that it had foreign made and overflowed the country's business sectors with hereditarily changed rice.The Director-General of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Rufus Ebegba made the position of government known at a news meeting on Wednesday in Abuja.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reviews that an online news stage had affirmed that the Federal Government through a firm had overflowed the country's business sector with harmful GM rice.
Ebegba said that there was no particle of truth in the report, taking note of that no GM rice had either been transported in or discharged formally into the nation.
As per him, `no GMO rice has been industrially discharged anyplace on the planet.
He said that the Federal Government had banned the importation of rice and there was no sign that the boycott had been lifted.
Ebegba portrayed the online report as a misrepresentation and creative energy of the essayist, who "presumably utilized a fake name.''
He included that the report was planned to bring about superfluous frenzy and approached Nigerians to negligence it.
The executive general additionally asked them to hold hands with the legislature to guarantee wellbeing in the act of cutting edge biotechnology in the nation in accordance with worldwide best practices.
He said NBMA was fit for directing all GMO items in Nigeria, promising that the organization would not trade off on its order.
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