The Director-General of National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Rufus Ebegba has disclosed that Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) food would not enter Nigerian market in the next three years adding that there might be GMO suspected food like maize, cotton and soya beans that have been officially released in the international market.

He maintained that the agency carried out a survey and discovered the absence of GMO food in the country stressing that the ones released globally have been certified safe.

While noting that no GM rice has been commercially released anywhere in the world, he recalled that the federal government has banned the importation of rice adding that there are no indication that the ban has been lifted.