The
National Biosafety management Agency on Wednesday described as untrue claims
that there were genetically modified rice in the Nigerian market. It said that
those making insinuations that the country has been flooded with ‘poisonous’
rice were mischief makers Director general NBMA, DR Rufus Ebegba made the
clarification during a press briefing in Abuja.
The
federal Government was mindful of Nigeria's safety and as such would not open
its borders to what had not been properly released and accepted in other
countries, saying that the attention of
the NBMA has been drawn to a certain online post that a firm and government of
Nigeria have flooded the Nigeria market with the AM rice purported to be
poisonous, this falsehood definitely is the product of writers imagination
using a pseudo name. this post should be disregarded and we all should join
hand in ensuring the Nigerians.
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BAN ON RICE IMPORTATION HAS NOT BEEN LIFTFD.
Is this real
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