 Health experts have raised an alarm over the influx of genetically modified organisms, GMO foods, into the country and the dangers they pose to human health are correspondent love IKUKUYODOKON reports. During our media training session on agroecology as a viable solution to climate change, the health expert expressed concerns over the increasing use of GMO food products. First steps taken in terms of policy reviews to discourage the consumption. They maintained that GMO foods have intergenerational implications, if not carefully and urgently addressed. Agroecology was a way that Africans used to farm. We found naturally. We used natural processes. We farm collectively, farm holistically. We farm in small scales that were not harmful to our environment. We ate food that were healthy to us. We ate natural food to us. It is time to embrace processes that are indigenous to us. It is time for us to look inwards. Enough is enough of us looking outward to define who we are. They therefore urged the federal government to ensure full security for all by embarking on enlightenment campaigns. For some products, we see reports of assessment on the national biostatic clearing house. Most of the time, it is on the environmental implication of how does the crop interact with other crops. But in terms of how GMOs affect human health in the long run, there is no assessment. There are no reports on that. Some journalists actually did an investigation by going around the country to check out how these varieties fare. One thing that came through by the interview of the promoters of GMOs was that the farmers were not told that they were planting GMOs. And why were they not told? Because the promoters claimed that they could not explain it in a way the farmers would understand it. It is time for the government to start looking inwards. Before the advent of oil, agriculture was the mainstay. Why not spend some time with the people and hear from them and learn from them so that we can actually find solutions to our problems for ourselves? The group called on the National Assembly to place an outright ban on GMOs in the country, as well as top field trials, commercial release and trans-border movements of the products. Where GMOs are failed and governments would draw their steps. In Bukuna Faso, when BT cotton failed because they were producing poor quality cotton and the country was losing money, the country stopped and returned to natural varieties. And once that same failed varieties, they were proved in Nigeria. With healthy soils, there will be less needs for these alternatives. But where farmers have to address some of these issues, there are natural means, there are natural methods that can be used. There are inorganic fertilizers. Compose over time has been shown to be effective and effective sort of nourishment for crops and the farmland. GMO is an organism created in the laboratory by taking genes from one species and forcing them into an entirely unrelated species in order to achieve a new trait or carastarist, there is not possible by nature. Love Ikuku Uyedokun. Plus, TV news. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.