Raila claims government importing GMOs through backdoor
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Azimio leader Raila Odinga now claims that Ruto's administration has resulted to importing GMOs into the country through backdoor
Azimio leader Raila Odinga now claims that Ruto’s administration has resulted to importing GMOs into the country through backdoor.
While speaking in Kilifi County on Friday, May 5 moments after he was denied entry to Shakahola Forest where close to 100 people lost their lives under cult leader Paul Mackenzie, Raila revealed that the government had brought GMOs through the backdoor.
“We are in a very sad state as a country because the government has started a program to import GMOs.
“When you use GMOs, it brings adverse health effects with men developing female organs and women start exhibiting growth of male reproductive organs,” the former prime minister made the unsubstantiated claims.
Raila called on the government to put the same measures as the United States when distributing GMO maize.
“In the US, there is a law that dictates that you must label any product that is GMO and separate it from organically produced foodstuffs,” Raila advised on what the government should do.
However, President William Ruto had earlier dismissed claims that there was a possibility GMOs could cause a biological change in humans.
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“Some leaders have been going around saying all manner of things, including lies that men will grow breasts and women beards if they consume GMOs.
“Have you seen me grow breasts yet I have consumed GMO foods,” the President posed to Kenyans on January 4, 2023.
Dismissing the claims made by the opposition, he remarked that they were against his efforts to make the country food secure.
On October 4, 2022, the cabinet lifted a 2012 ban imposed on the importation of GMOs.
The High Court though on November 28, 2022, suspended importation of GMO maize after a case was filed by a farmer’s lobby group called the Kenyan Peasants League challenging the cabinet’s resolution.
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