Medicinal rice?!!!! This will certainly be a GM rice like the GM rice named “golden rice” which Prof. Ingo Potrykus and Dr. Peter Beyer developed and claimed the cure vitamin A deficiency. Greenpeace (independent group of experts) showed it was falsehood.

What disease will it cure?

The tools, method and safety studies of it must be made public through journal and newspaper publications and there must be repeat of the method and the certification of its safety by independent experts before it is provided for human consumption.

But more important, why are Nigerians so gullible, subservient and slavish concerning foreign ideas and practices? Why do we not wait until the tools and method used for developing GMOs and the safety of GM foods are certified by independent experts and, hence, provide the standard for copying before we copy, bearing it in mind that GMOs deplete soil fertility and poison other NON GM crops through horizontal and vertical foreign gene transfer, that NO GMO has been shown to be safe anywhere in the world, not even one, and that it has been shown that the herbicides and pesticides sprayed on GM-based farms cause cancers and other deadly diseases?