Director General National Biosafety Management Agency NBMA Rufus Ebegba, says Nigeria sets standard for the African continent in the regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms GMOs.
Ebegba spoke in Abuja while welcoming a team of regulators from Ghana’s Biosafety Management Authority who came to understudy NBMA’s success story in biosafety management.
The DG assured Nigerians that the agency would continue to ensure safety standards in the regulation of GMOs.
Ebegba said that GMOs in Nigeria are safe adding that the agency ensures that GMO’s are kept in a safe environment.
The DG said that the collaboration among government agencies, departments and ministries had been effective especially in the area of information and team work.
Ebegba expressed the need for the Ghanaian government to extend the scope of regulatory framework to capture the new emerging technologies such as gene editing, gene drive, and synthetic biology.
In his speech, Chairman of Ghana’s Parliamentary Committee on Environment, Science and Technology Emmanuel Marfo, commended the activities of NBMA in Nigeria.
