Scientists in Kampala and a group of key stakeholder sectors want the 9th parliament to pass into law, the National Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill 2012 before its time elapses.
Addressing the media in Kampala on Thursday, Erostus Nsubuga, the UBBC chairman said the main objective of the Bill is to ensure the safety development and use of modern biotechnology for national development.
“All procedures to enact the Bill into law, have been done and the only step left is the final approval by parliament into law,” Nsubuga added.
He also explains that President Yoweri Museveni has for years been in support of the Bill, and commissioned the National Biotechnology Laboratory at Kawanda in 2003. Museveni officially opened the Agro-genetic Tchnologies Tissue culture laboratories abt Buloba in 2008.
“On both occasions, the president affirmed his support for the Bill.”
The group further explained that Stake holders are united behind the Bill for a common cause of advancing the role of biotechnology in improving Livelihoods of the people in Uganda.