{"id":2027,"date":"2023-02-21T16:50:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2023-02-21T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:50:28","slug":"gmo-will-be-a-plus-to-kenya-national-biosafety-authority-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2023\/02\/21\/gmo-will-be-a-plus-to-kenya-national-biosafety-authority-says\/","title":{"rendered":"GMO will be a plus to kenya ,National Biosafety Authority says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"832\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG-20230221-WA0153-1024x832.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG-20230221-WA0153-1024x832.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG-20230221-WA0153-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG-20230221-WA0153-768x624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG-20230221-WA0153-1200x975.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG-20230221-WA0153.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Nicholas Manduku<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year,President Ruro gave an executive order No.1 of 2022 that the National Biosafety Authority which made it easy for the ministry to push the implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NBA has assured the nation that all researchers are ready to creat a good platform and therefore as the Authority we will ensure every kenyans understands the meaning and how its helpful to their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government is setting aside 2% of the GDP to the National Biosafety research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the theme:&#8221;Harnessing Agricultural Biotethrough Effective Biosafety Management Systems &#8220;how to advance the Biosafety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to journalists ,Dr. Roy Mugira,Chief Executive Director has said the authority has decided to carry public awareness about the biotechnology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said lack of accurate information on GMO has led to panic and mistrust to governance actoss the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GMo has been approved by UN convention and the law also approves it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The fear of the unknown is a natural reaction,and we will ensure we have a packaged information to the public,&#8221;he added<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember in 2008 , the then ministrer was Hon Ruto currently the president of Kenya was the one who launched the agenda to kenyans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are going to partner with all leaders including MPs,MCA and County governments for effective dissemination of the GMO.&#8221;he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nicholas Manduku Last year,President Ruro gave an executive order No.1 of 2022 that the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2029,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}