Few days ago, three women, who identified themselves as Doris, Finegirl, and Beauty,
from Ughelli community, Delta state, have been arrested by the Vigilante
Network at the Tombia market Etegwe, Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa state for
selling vulture meat.
The women who were handed
over to men of the Akenfa Division, Bayelsa Police command confessed selling
Vulture meat and carcasses of donkeys to unsuspecting buyers, saying they
import these meats from neighbouring states into the state and sell at cheap and
affordable prices to buyers, mostly those who own restaurants, bars and
canteens.
Speaking with reporters
during the parade of the suspects, the Yenagoa coordinator of the Vigilante
Network, Bunas Samuel, advised all Bayelsans to be on alert and be careful on
what they consume. He called on NAFDAC to live up to its responsibility and
checkmate the activities of food hawkers.
In another development, a man
was also apprehended in Yenagoa, by members of the Bayelsa State Vigilante
Network, for allegedly cooking and preparing vultures and selling them as
chicken meat to the general public.
The man who was apprehended
at the popular slaughter place, at Tombia Market, Etegwe Yenagoa was caught
when field commanders of the Vigilante Network led by Godwin Avidi, were on
patrol around the market axis, at exactly 11:43pm.
According to Godwin, the patrol
team observed suspicious movement at the slaughter place, and trailed it.
“To our greatest imagination,
we saw about thirty dead vultures, all prepared to be placed inside a hot pot
of boiling water, we called the attention of the police and handed the suspect
over to them, before then, he confessed to us, that, he uses dead meat bones to
attract the vultures and then uses chemicals to kill them, and he has been in this
business for years, selling them to market women and chicken traders at Major
markets and chicken sales point in the state”, Godwin said.
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