Lagos to investigate sale of dead chickens after CLEAR VOICE NEWS report

Lagos to investigate sale of dead chickens after CLEAR VOICE NEWS report

The Lagos State Government has launched a ban on traders in the state for processing and selling chickens killed by rats after an investigative report by CLEAR VOICE NEWS revealed the investigation into the practice kill The Deputy Minister of Agriculture in the state, Dr. Mary Ogunleye, disclosed this while seeking more information from CLEAR VOICE NEWS for the report. Ogunleye, the Chief Veterinary Epidemiologist in the state, said that the Ministry of Agriculture is exploring collaboration with other stakeholders to protect the health of the citizens and resolve the misguided businessman.

He said, “I called to find out about a report published by CLEAR VOICE titled ‘Cheap Poison: How Lagos Traders repackage and sell dead chickens after rodent attacks’ and now I want to know about the market and its proper location.

– Can you tell us the name of a specific market to help us investigate? We are investigating this matter. We need to know exactly where we are and where we are going, and investigate accordingly. Plain Language, in an investigative report titled “Good Poison:

How Lagos Traders Renovate and Sell Dead Poultry After Rat Attacks”, finds traders fighting to rodent attacks (Bird Sales How traders return dead chickens and sell them to unsuspecting residents. Reports also show that traders sell dead chickens to vulnerable residents because they cannot afford to buy live chickens due to the poor economy.

This story documents how the use of wooden houses in the Lagos Bird Market exposes the birds to rodent attacks, and traders sell dead chickens to residents to prevent them from disappearing. the money.

Traders complained that the use of wooden cages exposed their chickens to daily rodent attacks, and some chickens were seriously injured and others died in many cases. According to health doctors and epidemiologists, the sale of chickens can cause Lassa fever in the country because infected rats can spread the virus to infected chickens that are sold for food. by man. Ogunleye also told our reporter that the findings of the government investigation will be shared with CLEARVOICE once completed. –

We have started an investigation, and once it’s done we’ll make a decision and let you know what we find. ——The Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture is on site. We will let you know what we find. Please give us next week; We will contact you as soon as possible. Contact other stakeholders and ensure they are available. – You know that these markets are in different places and it is not possible to complete this research in one day. This is not something that can be done in one day. But next week, it will come back to you. On the issue of access to new cages, he noted that the Lagos State Government is continuing to provide cages for poultry producers and consumers.

However, Ogunleye said the state government was not giving new houses to individual farmers, but through their relationships and activities. -The problem is, the government does not provide prisons for poultry farmers and traders. Therefore, marketers must turn to new ways. – State governments provide funding to cooperatives, not individuals. They have their own connections. The government provides prisons to groups, not individuals. – The battery cage will not be provided separately. The old one should be removed. The wooden cage is an ancient tradition. Let’s get rid of it. “They (farmers) have to invest in themselves,” he said.