The Kebbi State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has impounded a truckload of dry donkey meat valued at N200 million while being conveyed to Onitsha in Anambra.
The dry meat was being conveyed to the popular Ochanja Market in Onitsha when Customs operatives impounded it on the Koko-Zuru highway in Kebbi.
The National President of the Donkey Dealers Association of Nigeria, Ikechukwu Aniude, who confirmed the development to newsmen in Abuja, said the meat was seized on May 19.
Aniude lamented what he described as the endless clampdown on traders dealing in donkey business, saying that the business was providing daily bread for more than three million Nigerian households.
“More cows are slaughtered in Nigeria daily, compared to the number of donkeys being slaughtered from day to day in our country. Seizing goods belonging to donkey dealers by the Kebbi State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service is the height of man’s inhumanity to man at a time like now in Nigeria.
“The operatives of the command failed to realise that our business has been giving daily bread to a cross-section of Nigerians north and south for more than half a century. We plead with the Federal Government to please step in and end the unwarranted onslaught on donkey traders by the Kebbi State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service in particular,” he said.
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