Health & Fitness
Group urges FG to ban GMO seeds amid allegations of foreign conspiracy
The Global Prolife Alliance (GPA), led by Dr. Philip Njemanze, has intensified its campaign for Nigeria to prohibit the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified organisms (GMO) seeds.
The GPA claims that GMO foods pose serious health risks and are part of a foreign plot to undermine Nigeria’s food security.
In letters to President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly, the GPA alleged that foreign interests are using hired mercenaries disguised as herdsmen and bandits to kill Nigerian farmers who grow natural seeds.
The group argues that this violence is part of a broader strategy to control Nigeria’s food supply by eliminating competition for biotech companies promoting GMO products.
The group warned that the spread of GMO crops could devastate Nigeria’s agriculture, making the country dependent on foreign-controlled seeds and deepening poverty.
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The group further said: “Our agricultural productivity has plummeted. Farmers cannot go to the farm for fear of being killed in their farms. Nigeria is now a nation in hunger, worse than a decade ago before the nefarious activities began.”
The group added that “GMO seeds deceptively called high-yield improved seeds do not replicate themselves; hence they are called ‘suicide seeds,’ that is, once planted and it grows, you cannot replant the next generation. The farmers have to go to the promoters every planting season to collect new seeds.”
The GPA said that since 2009, terrorists have been sponsored and branded Boko Haram, bandits and herdsmen to carry out genocide of farmers in Nigeria to capture Nigeria’s food security.
“Consider this, from 2015-2018, 37,500 farmers were killed, 32,000 were Muslims, and 5,500 were Christians. Despite the fact that 85% of the victims were Muslims, the international and local press propaganda mercenary branded it ‘Islamic terrorism.’
An agripreneur, Mr Nnamdi Cos-Ukwuoma, posited that GMO is an evil wind and a conspiracy. He said: “Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) technology seems to defy nature. Nature renews itself.
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“When this natural order is altered through scientific or laboratory-controlled genetic engineering or modification to introduce new traits into an organism (plant or animal) the effect can be catastrophic to humans and the ecology. GMO technology purports to create disease/pest resistant seed varieties and increase yield.
“Despite efforts by the new world order and developers of GMO to adduce seemingly convincing arguments to convince the agri-preneurs that their seeds which have been biochemically altered at the molecular level for their own interest and for reasons only known to them farmers have bluntly resisted accepting their seeds and their baits.
“Reasons include that GMO seeds deny farmers the natural privilege of re-using seeds from their farms or to sell to maximize profit. For instance, cassava stems harvested from some GMO cassava are sterile and cannot be used again. Farmers need to contact the developers for fresh orders.
He acknowledged that some sources insist that GMO seeds are inherently unstable and have the propensity of causing cancer, reproductive problems, organ damage, allergic reactions, immunosuppression and antibiotics resistance, etc.