Lagos State government, yesterday, arrested three butchers selling tuberculosis infected beef, even as it clamped down on three illegal slaughter slabs in the state.
The butchers were arrested at Alapere-Ketu axis of state by a team of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences task force, led by the chairman, Mr. Bayo Sulaiman.
The three illegal slaughter slabs were at Ajegunle, Alapere and Ajelogo.
According to Dr. Nureini Funsho, Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to the state governor on agriculture:
Government has done so much to dissuade butchers from slaughtering infected animals. And this has stopped in our over 20 legal slabs because trained veterinary doctors are available to examine animals before they are slaughtered.
And if the animal had been slaughtered before they detected it, the state government compensates the butchers.
Some of these butchers know that the animals are bad for consumption but they still slaughter them for sale at these illegal slabs.”The arrested butchers would be charged to court.
Their greed got the better part of them. They should be fined and barred from working as butchers for at least one year. Yeye people.
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