SaharaReporters reported on Sunday that the Community Outreach for Development and Welfare Advocacy (CODWA) had thrown its weight behind the House of Representatives for their resolution that the Nigerian Government should suspend further actions on genetically modified organism crops otherwise known as GMO foods.
The Global Prolife Alliance (GPA) has called on the National Assembly to summon Bill Gates and Dr Akinwumi Adesina, Chief Special Adviser on Agriculture and Minister of Agriculture in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan respectively to testify before its investigative committee on Genetically Modified Organisms seeds.
Adesina is the 8th elected President of the African Development Bank Group.
SaharaReporters reported on Sunday that the Community Outreach for Development and Welfare Advocacy (CODWA) had thrown its weight behind the House of Representatives for their resolution that the Nigerian Government should suspend further actions on genetically modified organism crops otherwise known as GMO foods.
However, in a press release on Monday, the Global Prolife Alliance said it welcomed the commencement of the investigation into GMO seeds by the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly.
GPA in the statement signed by its Chairman, Academician Dr Philip Njemanze, called for an outright ban of all GMO seeds in Nigeria, alleging that it is the source of insecurity in the country. He accused the biotechnology vendors of GMO seeds of sponsoring terrorists to kill natural seed farmers.
Citing the United States Council of Foreign Relations, the group said that between 2015 and 2018, no fewer than 37,500 farmers were killed.
"About 32,000 or 85% were Muslims, and 5,500 or 15% were Christians' natural seed growers," it said.
"This dispels any links to Islamic terrorism rather, it shows how the Biotechnology Companies owned by Bill Gates are the major suspects in the killing of their Natural Seed Competitors.
"Bill Gates was the Chief Special Adviser on Agriculture to President Goodluck Jonathan alongside his protégé Dr Akinwumi Adesina, who was the minister of agriculture in the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
"Bill Gates and Dr. Adesina introduced the Electronic Wallet Cell phones, which used GPS by private army mercenaries to track and kill the natural seed growers in Nigeria," the statement indicated.
It added, "GPA calls on the House of Representatives Committee to invite both Bill Gates and Dr Akinwumi Adesina to testify in their investigations since they were both Nigerian public servants when the crises started.
"As an interim measure, NASS should pass a resolution to halt all distribution of GMO seeds in Nigeria pending a total ban after the investigations are completed.
"The announced labelling of GMO products is impractical since roadside markets, which most Nigerians use do not have access to that GMO status information."