A 33-year-old suspect, Hassan Ebere, has revealed how he sold 6,000 dead poultry to residents of Maiduguri for five years so as to raise money for his livelihood since he lost his father.
Ebere made the revelation while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria after being paraded by the Borno Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Wednesday.
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“I usually go to the Ngadabul river, behind Borno Radio Television complex, to pick the carcasses of poultry that are thrown away from poultry farms.
“So every week, I pick at least ten or even more than that, then process it and take it to sell to unsuspecting customers.
“My market base are usually Baga fish market, where I sell some of them as bush meat, Monday market, suya joints and some selected restaurants within the metropolis.
“The products usually go for N700, N800. But if it had spent some days, I take them to local beer parlours at the back of Ngomari ward and sell them for N250,”he said.
Ebere said he was pushed by the devil to engage in such nefarious activities, and begged for forgiveness.
Borno Commandant of the NSCDC, Abdullahi Ibrahim, said that the suspect was arrested, while processing the meat behind BRTV complex on Jan. 2, 2021.
Ibrahim said that the command got intelligence reports about the nefarious acts before swinging into action to apprehend him, adding that the arrest of the suspect had stopped what had been a serious health hazard to the people.
On his part, State Coordinator of NAFDAC, Nasiru Mato, said the implication of such an act was in the threat it posed to public safety. (NAN)
