The Group noted that country’s abattoirs are in deplorable situation
and all illegal one should be shut down immediately, while calling for
the presence of Police to provide adequate security for professionals
working in all abattoirs and slaughter slabs.
In a statement signed by the National President of NVMA, Dr Gani
Enahoro, the Association expressed its frustration “in stimulating the
various state governments to the responsibility of sanitizing their
operations in order to ensure desired public health for the population
who are made to consume unwholesome meat daily from these sources.
“In an attempt to passionately canvass good hygiene and prevent a
group of wicked butchers who were in the habit of selling meat from
animals dead in transit to Akwa Ibom state, one of our members Dr James
Etukudo was brutally attacked recently at Uyo in the course of duty as
he led a team to the illegal slaughter slab located along Abak road.
