Cabinet Secretary For Trade, Industry and Investment Moses Kuria has asked Kenyans not to worry about Genetically Modified Foods better known as GMOs.
The CS, however, while defending GMOs noted that people should not be worried about GMOs on grounds that they cause death.
He said, after all, many things can cause death in Kenya noting that adding GMOs to the list is not a problem.
"We have things that can kill us in Kenya. Being in the country you are a candidate for death and because there are so many things competing for death, there is nothing wrong with adding GMOs to that list," the CS noted on Thursday.
The comments come on the very day he said he had allowed a duty-free importation of GMOs to cushion Kenyans on food scarcity facing the country and hunger.
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The CS said he will allow the duty-free products into the country for a period of six months.
"In view of the food situation in the country, I shall be signing instruments to allow duty-free imports of GMO and non-GMO Maize for the next 6 months," he tweeted.
GMOs have been a major topic of discussion among Kenyans with a section opposing the move by the government to lift a ban on the products.
President William Ruto's new regime lifted the ban in a bid to allow the country to have a surplus of food owing to the rising cost of living.
