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Samia calls for ban on GM foods

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  • pato 10 years ago

    The civil societies should demand answers from our reputable research institutions, and concentrate on helping the vulnerables. The Universities, , CSIR , agric ministries, EPA etc must tell Ghanaians about gmo, not Samia Nkr ...
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  • Osei Bonsu 10 years ago

    WELL DONE SAMIA FOR THE ATTENTION TO ALL GHANAIANS. We need to be protected by all these Institutions: The Universities, , CSIR , agric ministries, EPA etc. but the question is - are we getting that???

  • IDRIS PACAS 10 years ago

    Not knowing or having limited knowledge on what GMOs are is the main cause. GMOs are over us. They are Burkina Faso. Loose border control meant that they are already in Ghana and are being consumed. So what's these protesters ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    the problem with this northern mentality is that thanks to jj they now all have an unquenchable thirst for power but never to serve in a team or accept their fellow countrymen . just look around in Accra and study the majorit ...
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  • TruthAboutDemocracy 10 years ago

    Crap!!!

  • Bomfaboy 10 years ago

    Does these protesters, and especially Samia Nkrumah, have a farm or been to a farm before? What do they know about farming to advice on GM Foods?

  • The Mask 10 years ago

    We are looking at ways to protect local industry. The GM debate presents us with an opportunity to do just this.

    Listen to Samia.

  • Swapna Guduru 10 years ago

    How do you suppose the yellow corn that the USAID occasionally donates to Ghana and many parts of hungry Africa was produced? But you guys fight over these GM yellow corn as if the world was gonna end. Stupid Africans, stick ...
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  • KING LOMOTEY 10 years ago

    Genetically Modified food and hybrid seeds are already introduced into Ghana, directly and indirectly; directly through yellow corn and other imported food items like imported rice, and indirectly through the consumption of t ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Need to produce our own foods

  • DAN 10 years ago

    I HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT IN USA SUPERMARKET EXCEPT A GHANA MARKET!!! EAT YOUR OWN GOATS NOT CANNED MEAT..ITS HIGH IN SALT AND FAT SO WILL GIVE YOU HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

  • KING LOMOTEY 10 years ago

    Genetically Modified food and hybrid seeds are already introduced into Ghana, directly and indirectly; directly through yellow corn and other imported food items like imported rice, and indirectly through the consumption of t ...
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  • KING LOMOTEY 10 years ago

    Genetically Modified food and hybrid seeds are already introduced into Ghana, directly and indirectly; directly through yellow corn and other imported food items like imported rice, and indirectly through the consumption of t ...
    read full comment

  • KING LOMOTEY 10 years ago

    Genetically Modified food and hybrid seeds are already introduced into Ghana, directly and indirectly; directly through yellow corn and other imported food items like imported rice, and indirectly through the consumption of t ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    TAKE THE VICE PRESIDENTS PENIS OUT OF YOUR MOUTH AND THE VIBE OUT OF YOU ANUS AND SPEAK 1 TIME! NOT LIKE A FUCKING PARROT REPEATING THINGS

  • MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

    Samia must first talk to Ghanaians about the menace of climate change. How do we mitigate and adapt to it? That, in my opinion, is more crucial.

  • BRANDY 10 years ago

    CHEAP NDC WILL ALLOW GM SEEDS AND EVEN SIGN EPA JUST LIKE THEY GAVE 94 MILLION EUROS TO CONSTRUCTION PIONEERS FOR NO WORK DONE....THEY ARE CROOKS WHO HAVE FURTHER WORSENED THE POVERTY OF THE EXTREMELY POOR IN GHANA....

  • osei kofi 10 years ago

    Im happy yo u are facing the facts of gmo please let us teach people about the dangers of gmo.the white people are now saying it is easy to kill a million through food than to control a million people.let is produce our own f ...
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  • john Anandhua 10 years ago

    NKRUMAH GO NKRUMAH COME, THANK GOD!

  • Adukrom 10 years ago

    Thank you Samia for taking a stand for those who don't have a voice in Ghana.
    When Npp is silent on CRUCIALLY important issues like GMO and EPA,and Ndc is busy selling mother Ghana,its refreshing to know we have people who T ...
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  • seth danso 10 years ago

    continue to fight this noble course. the spirits of your father and ancestors
    are with you. do not be afraid of those who are in positions that are reserved for patriots but have chosen to act as conduits for slaying their k ...
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  • Amino-Apkanga Simuno 10 years ago

    Good move Samia. We must not allow these greedy bastards to take over our food as well.

    This will create massive unemployment and make the greedy few richer. It will also put our lives at risk here in Africa. What is good ...
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  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 10 years ago

    Germany doesn`t want GMOs introduced here.They understand the hazards to health.But the Blackman will swallow everything the Whiteman imposes.What a shame!Samia, our people are brainwashed!

  • AKWELE 10 years ago

    Natural is the best way to go. We cannot beat nature.

  • Farmer 10 years ago

    Ghanaian farmers can kiss their food exportation to Europe and the USA good bye.

  • MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

    Most people in Ghana don't really know what GMO food is. Can our scientists, not our politicians, tell us what genetically modified foods are? And what are the consequences following their injection into our bodies?
    We shoul ...
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  • GMFOODS 10 years ago

    As to how this NDC gov't led by John Mahama would allow Ghanaians to be used first as guinea pigs in our own country is unfathomable. Secondly, to again allow our food and nutrition requirements to be held in a vise grip and ...
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  • Brobbsnet-USA 10 years ago

    There is a direct Link between GMO Foods and Health.Changes in GMO Foods Causes Changes in the body and along goes the health of the body.Mahama should be sitting in Prison.!

  • TruthAboutDemocracy 10 years ago

    Mahama cannot control every thing!!Hope when a new president comes we will blame him for the filth in our bedrooms!!

  • AGBEVE 10 years ago

    Mmmmmm

  • DONBOLI 10 years ago

    GM food is nothing new in ghana. Where does she think the seeds of the rice comes from. It was in the time of your father ghana started eating GM food.
    In the time of her father he made ghanaians call GM agric. Agric seeds w ...
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  • Brobbsnet-USA 10 years ago

    gluten sensitivity and Celiac disease are just two examples linked to GM Foods.There is also the issue of cross-contamination of the land use to grow other foods.Population growth and climate change puts pressure to feed more ...
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  • Akua 10 years ago

    Your choice of words for a lady saving your dumb ass tells us all how limited your knowledge is and how infantile you are .

  • TT 10 years ago

    That confused Samia still won't learn. has sh finished paying her domestic workers? Irresponsible woman who can't even take care of her only son?

  • MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

    Where are our scientists to tell us what the heck is going on. The debate about genetically modified organisms, especially food, is politics, it is science, so our politicians should back off and stop scaring and confusing th ...
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  • HASSAN ANYASS 10 years ago

    GM FOOD IS A KILLER, AND MUST NOT BR ALLOWED IN TO THE COUNTRY I HAVE WATHED A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT IT AND ALL THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ARE DEMONSTRATING AGAINST THE GMF. ITS TOO SAD TO HEAR THAT GHANA IS WILLING TO ALLOW IT IN TO ...
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  • joker 10 years ago

    Samia is fake. Only those who do not know her will follow her. How can sombody who refused to pay her domestic workers be a good leader.

  • Akua 10 years ago

    Which is worse?
    I can prove my allegation,can you do the same for yours?
    I am waiting for your response.
    Please stop the brain dead untrue allegations.
    She is standing up for what your SHIT HEAD is scared to do,you chicke ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    ARE YOU JEALOUS

  • Frank G 10 years ago

    mrs nkrumah you are doing an good job, please keep on going.and don't listen to those who critisize you.they don't know even if some of them used to be somehow intelligent.
    yes on one point they are right: you can fix hunger ...
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  • SONAD ,USA 10 years ago

    Please for once, listen to this lady.She is absolutely right in her assertions.Introduction of GM foods in Ghana will place our farmers under the multinationals like Montesantos whereby our farmers will have to buy seeds ev ...
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  • Asem Beba 10 years ago

    GMO foods is diabolical, unhealthy and a threat to our health. Even here where I live people go for organic foods which is the natural way. Only very poor people go for GMOs. Our reps have never used it so they think it is ok ...
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  • Piesie 10 years ago

    I am 100% in support of what Ms Samia is saying. As a Natural Medicine completing student in the USA, I am going to embark on Mass Education Program on GMO foods at my own cost in all the 10 regions in Ghana anytime soon.

  • Kai Dabi 10 years ago

    Your efforts will be GREATLY appreciated if you are successful.
    God speed!

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    The plant breeders bill is to provide cover for GM breeders to surreptitiously enter Ghana and take control of the food supply chain. For this reason, we must use every ounce of breath in us to thwart it

  • MOBA 10 years ago

    WHAT SHE IS SAYING IS VERY TRUE.THE IGNORANT ONES NEED TO EDUCATE THEMSELVES BEFORE ATTACKING THE LADY.MOST OF THE SO CALLED DEVELOPED WORLD ARE GOING BACK TO THE OLD FORMS OF FARMING.WE NEED MORE PEOPLE WHO GET INFORMED BEFO ...
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  • Justman 10 years ago

    IT IS SIMPLE PRODUCE TH GMS FOR EXPORT ONLY AND CONSUME THE NATURAL ONE.I LIKE EATING ONLY THE NATURAL BANANA, PINEAPLE, PAWPAW & EGG FROM LOCAL FOWLS. I SOMETIMES PRODUCE SOME IN MY HOUSE.

  • JONES 10 years ago

    BECAUSE OF THE HEALTHY NATURE AND NOT MASS PRODUCE TO KILL. NO WONDER HUMAN BODY CANNOT RESIST ANY OF THESE NEW STRAIN OF DISEASES

  • JONES 10 years ago

    UNLESS GHANA LEADERS DESIST FROM CORRUPTION AND EMBRASSED VISION, LEGACY GHANA WILL NOT GO ANYWHERE