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According to a dispatch following the cabinet meeting on October 3, the Kenyan government claims that it reversed the GMO ban after taking into account things like the Kenya National Biosafety Authority's (NBA) guidelines, the need to adapt to climate change and a reduction in reliance on rain-fed agriculture. The Kenyan government repealed a ban on the commercialization of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton, a GM cotton type resistant to the destructive insect pest known as the African bollworm, during the same cabinet meeting. Following the lifting of the prohibition, President William Ruto tweeted: "We are implementing innovative and new farming solutions that will assure early maturity and higher food production to protect millions of Kenyans from recurrent starvation." Ann Maina, the national coordinator of the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya, criticized the government's decision to lift the prohibition, claiming there was insufficient proof that ...
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World Athletics Championship-Eyes on Ferdinand Omanyala

World Athletics Championship-Eyes on Ferdinand Omanyala

Africa’s fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala faces a race against time to compete at the World Athletics Championships after his American travel visa was approved. The Kenyan, 26, who won the African 100m title last month, is due to race in the heats on Friday at the global event in Eugene, Oregon.

“I am not giving up on the World Championships yet,” Omanyala told BBC Sport Africa. “The information that I am out of the Championships is not true.” Omanyala flew from Kenya at 18:00 local time on Thursday, and is expected to arrive in Eugene less than three hours before the men’s 100m heats begin in the evening session on day one of the World Championships.

Details have emerged of how cunning officials at the Ministry of Sports mysteriously smuggled 32  joyriders to the United States on Friday last week. The ministry’s action happened at the expense of athletes picked to represent the country at the World Athletics Championships among them, Ferdinand Omanyala who only left last night.

“The reason why the ministry officials included Omanyala and Tuwei in the last batch was meant to hoodwink embassy officials since they knew the star sprinter and the federation President could not be left out,” the source explained. Other members stranded in Nairobi are team manager Rono Bunei, physiotherapists John Muraya, Jessica Shiraku and Japheth Kariakim and team doctor Victor Bargoria. 

The scandal is not new as a similar one hit the country during the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games. In the Rio scandal, Government officials stole air tickets and sold them to non-athletes, forcing them to seek alternative means to travel to the Brazillian city ( People Daily).

You are a resilient Kenyan gem, You will win Omanyala! 

Visa Saga Threatens Omanyala's World Championships Dream - Business Today Kenya

 

 

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