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Agriculture CS Mutahi Kagwe before the National Assembly Agriculture and Livestock Committee at Parliament on February 21, 2025. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]
Members of the National Assembly's Agriculture and Livestock Committee have urged the government to allow the National Biosafety Authority (NBA) to recruit more technical staff to enable it to undertake its mandate of regulating Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) activities effectively in the Country.
The committee led by the Vice Chairperson, Mr Yegon Brighton Leonard Mp Konoin, together with Wajir West MP Farah Yussuf Mohamed and Soy MP David Kiplagat, said that the NBA should engage the national government to seek an exemption from the current freeze on the public recruitment process.
Kiplagat said that the first aid of protecting the health and safety of Kenyans is important and should be given priority over administrative restrictions.
