Last month, a section of MPs led by Bufumbira County East MP, James Nsaba-Buturo were planning to introduce a bill prohibiting Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Nsaba-Buturo said that Ugandans need to reject any plans to introduce GMOs in the country, reasoning absurdly, that GMOs pose health risks as well as a danger to the environment.
He further added that the Bill will also provide for the phasing out of the already existing GMOs in the country and insisted that GMOs are a disaster that have no benefits. He labored to even tell an open lie that 50 African countries out of 54, have said no to GMOs. Buturo needs to be told that genetically modified crops have been commercially cultivated in many African countries that include Kenya, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Sudan amongst others.
The GMO Bill which was legislated in 2012 must NOT be used by anti-GMO propagandists who are motivated by ignorance or selfish reasons. There is a lot of evidence to show that Buturo and most of the Anti-GMO people have been enjoying GMO products without knowing it. Rather than scaremongering, they should face the reality that these products have already been doing well on the Ugandan market.
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