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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
A Non Governmental Organization (NGO), Centre for Food Safety and Agriculture Research has blamed external forces for security challenges in the country.
The Executive Director of the NGO, Mr Qrisstuberg Amua, while speaking at a press briefing, in Abuja, noted that farmers can no longer go to their farms because of insecurity.
Amua stated that the situation is orchestrated to cause hunger in the country, in order to push for Genetically Modified Organisms ( GMOs), which he described as weapons of mass destruction.
According to him,”In Benue State, the supposed food basket is becoming empty, not because Benue people are not producing food, not because they don’t have GMOs. It is because ethnic and foreign interests are taking over. GMOs are biological weapons and agents of mass destruction.
“They are pushing insecurity on our nation, sponsoring it clandestinely, and I challenge the national security apparatus to look deeply into this, investigate why our farmers can’t go to farms. But these people are ready to create a scenario of hunger to advertise genetically modified poisons.”
Recall that recently, a group of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) at a at a public hearing on GMO organised by House Joint Committees on Agricultural Production and Services, Privatisation, Commercialisation, Public Asset, Science Engineering and Special Duties, charged the parliament to ban GMOs in the country.
According to the coalition, “it is noteworthy that nearly all studies that claim GMOs are safe are funded by the very biotechnology corporations that produce and/or profit from GMOs sales.
“Several studies have linked the consumption of GMOs to a myriad of diseases including antibiotics resistance, the commercially approved Bt Cowpea expresses an enzyme which confers resistance to antibiotics – neomycin phosphotransferase II (NPTII).”
