KAD Facts

Kaduna State is the first sub-national to enact a law to regulate the livestock sub-sector in the country and it is the first state to have a Board saddled with that responsibility.

The law which regulates the Management, Registration and Regulation of Slaughter facilities and Milk and Diary Services states that:

– No person or corporate body shall operate any facility as abattoir, slaughter facility, meat or dairy shop or meat processing plant unless same is registered and licensed as such by Kaduna State Livestock Regulatory Authority;

– An application for a license to establish and operate a slaughter facility, meat shop or meat processing plant shall be made in the prescribed form;

– The Authority shall issue to the applicant a certificate of registration and a license, which shall stipulate the conditions for their operations, upon the payment of the prescribed fees;

– The registration and grant of license made under this law may be cancelled at any time by the Authority, if it is satisfied that the facility is not being operated in compliance with the Law;

– There shall be a manager responsible for the management of the facility and perform such other functions as may be conferred or imposed on him by regulations made under the Law;

– The manager shall ensure that the facility is kept in proper sanitary conditions, which include efficient lighting and ventilation, sufficient water supply, evacuation of filth, refuse or any other substance or thing likely to have harmful effect on the livestock or meat within the facility;

– No person shall slaughter any animal which is intended for human consumption or dress the carcass of any such animal elsewhere, other than in a registered facility;

– A person can slaughter animals within his premises if the meat derived there from is not sold or intended for sale to the public;

– If such animal is found to be diseased, a veterinary officer may at all reasonable times, enter the premises on which the carcass of such animal is found and shall destroy it in such a manner as he may think fit;

– Every facility shall be constructed in conformity with the advice and template provided by the Authority on site mapping, architectural and structural design.