Kogi State Govt Advises Residents to Shun Cow Meat for One Week After 20 Die Mysteriously
- The Kogi government has advised residents in the state to shun cow meat for the next one week after the mysterious deaths of the animals
- An official of the state government said an investigation has commenced on the incident to ascertain its root cause
- Agricultural experts say the cows must have eaten grasses treated with herbicides while calling for an autopsy from the stomach contents of the butchered cattle
Lokoja - Residents of Kogi were on Thursday, April 8 advised to shun cow meat for at least one week as 20 cows died mysteriously in Lokoja, the state capital.
The Kogi government through the director of veterinary services in the state's ministry of agriculture, Salau Tarawa, said there is the possibility that the cows ingested poisonous substances while grazing.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Tarawa said beef from some of the cows were already in Lokoja markets but had been recalled.
He lamented that some of the cows had already been taken to markets in other parts of the state for sale to members of the public.
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According to him, the ministry was collaborating with security agencies to bring the herders to question.
Daily Trust newspaper reports that the permanent secretary of the ministry, Malam Sani Abdulganiyu, urged members of the public to cooperate with the ministry to address the situation without compromising their health.
How Kogi govt banned consumption of cow meat in 2020
The Cable newspaper reports that the development comes almost two years after a similar incident in Lokoja.
Twelve cows were said to have died mysteriously in April 2020, after which the state government banned the consumption of beef for 48 hours.
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Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari took decisive action towards achieving food security across the country by the end of 2021.
The Nigerian leader approved the setting up of integrated farm estates in all senatorial districts on Sunday, September 5.
Paul Ikonne, the Executive Secretary of the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) made the disclosure.
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The project which is in partnership with NALDA is an investment of the state that had been abandoned for over three decades.
With over 35 hectares of land, the estate currently has six poultry houses with 18 pens that contain about 10,000 birds, three goat houses with 196 goats, three pig houses containing 108 pigs, three solar-powered boreholes, access roads, and drainage, as well as solar-powered street lights.
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