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From David Onwuchekwa, Nnewi
The Chairman, Nkwo Nnewi Butchers Association, Nnewi, Mr Nonso Onyetube, has dismissed a rumour that an unhealthy cow with the disease of anthrax was slaughtered at the association’s abattoir recently.
Mr Onyetube told our Correspondent who came to his office in the course of investigating the allegation that every cow slaughtered at the market was subjected to inspection by a government veterinary doctor to certify the animal healthy before slaughtering.
He said that the inspection always started while their cows were in transit by their suppliers. He assured that no member of their association would ever buy an unhealthy cow from the source let alone bring it to their abattoir for human consumption.
Mr Onyetube, however, requested that the veterinary doctors whose duty it was to inspect cows at the market should be doing so without waiting for that to be done at the instance of the association.
He noted that one of the major challenges to the butchers was access roads to and fro the slaughterhouse. He cited the road from the fowl sellers’ location which he said the association had done a palliative job on and yet needed major repairs and the road from old motor spare parts where they needed government intervention. He also mentioned an erosion site where he said their cows always fell into occasionally and called for help.
He noted that the association had continued to do its best to keep the abattoir clean having employed cleaners to that effect.
He expressed satisfaction that security challenges arising from unknown gunmen and some herdsmen that were bedevilling the traders had subsided.
He said his association would not relent in being loyal to the government of Professor Charles Soludo but appealed that butchers should not be left to do everything by themselves since they paid their taxes as and when due.
