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President William Ruto: No woman would grow beards for eating GMOs

President William Ruto during a joint media interview at State House, Nairobi on January 4, 2023. [Standard] 

President William Ruto has said that his government lifted the longstanding ban on GMOs because there is no conclusive evidence suggesting that the modified crops are harmful to human health.

In 2012, President Mwai Kibaki’s Cabinet imposed a ban on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) to protect the indigenous crops.

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