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Is Kenya Ready For GMO ?

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 The Kenyan government repealed a ban on the commercialization of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton, a GM cotton type resistant to the destructive insect pest known as the African bollworm,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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Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO): The Legality In Kenya

"In accordance with the Task Force to Review Matters Relating to Genetically Modified Foods and Food Safety's recommendation and in accordance with the National Biosafety Authority's guidelines on all applicable international treaties, including the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB), Cabinet vacated its earlier decision of November 8, 2012, prohibiting the open cultivation of genetically modified crops and the importation of food crops and animal feed products.'' The communiqué from the October 3 Cabinet meeting stated, "By virtue of the presidential order, open growing and importing of white (GMO) maize is now authorized."

Seeds of Neo-Colonialism – Why the GMO promoters get it so wrong about Africa – AFSA

On October 3, 2022, President Ruto presided over a meeting in the State House when members of the Uhuru Cabinet convened to discuss the adoption of GMO foods. On October 27, the Ruto Cabinet was sworn in.

 Martha Karua, the head of NARC Kenya, claims that it was unlawful for President William Ruto to have used the old Uhuru Kenyatta cabinet to authorize GMOs. "Once a new president is sworn in following elections, the previous administration's rule ends and its cabinet is legally disbanded. After Uhuru's inauguration, there were no such things as the alleged cabinet meetings. GMO decisions are invalid since they amount to little more than a roadside proclamation," Ms. Karua remarked.

Let the constitutional attorneys assist us in understanding how the public interest swung on this matter. Regardless of how GMO may be, the law should be followed. We are not in hurry to die, even though we are death candidates as remarked by CS Kuria.

 

 

 

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