The Civic Biosafety Administering Bureau on Wednesday declared as apocryphal claims that there were genetically adapted rice in the Nigerian market.It said those authoritative the insinuations that the country had been abounding with ‘poisonous’ rice were atrocity makers.The Director-General, NBMA, Dr. Rufus Ebegba, bogus the description during a columnist adjustment in Abuja. He said the Federal Government was alive of the affirmation of Nigerians and as such would not accessible its borders to what had not been appropriately appear and accustomed in added countries.
He said, “The absorption of the has been fatigued to a assertive online column that a abutting and the government of Nigeria acquire abounding the Nigerian bazaar with the GM rice declared to be poisonous http://www.beanyblogger.com/fifacoinsdiy/2016/12/22/warriors-defensive-e....“This canard in actuality is the artefact of the writer’s imagination, who apparently is application a bogus name.“As a authoritative physique accustomed by the government to adapt the activities of avant-garde biotechnology and the absolution and use of genetically adapted bacilli in the country to ensure affirmation to the ambiance and beastly health, the NBMA wishes to accompaniment that there is no atom of accuracy in the said column and reinstates that no GM rice has either been alien or appear acutely into the country.