By Okeoghene Akubuike
Dr Rufus Ebegba,Director- General, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) has called for collaboration between relevant stakeholders to ensure a National Biosecurity Policy that will help safeguard humans and the environment.
Ebegba made the call at the National Biosafety Management Consultative Meeting on Biosecurity in Abuja on Friday.
He said that there was also the need to come up with a National Biosecurity Emergency Response Strategy on the National Biosecurity Regulations/Guidelines.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Muhammadu Buhari assented to the NBMA Amendment Act in August 2019.
The Act expanded the scope of the agency to include emerging aspects of modern Biotechnology and Biosecurity.
Ebegba said that for the agency to achieve its new mandate on Biosecurity, it need the collaboration of other agencies.
“The…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
