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New Sunday Times has learnt that the meat cartel would go to the extent of “bullying” competitors, especially Bumiputera importers.
The cartel would control the local meat import market and sabotage other importers by playing the numbers game in setting prices to ensure that Bumiputera companies suffered losses.
This happens when the cartel companies lower the prices of meat while their competitors are in the midst of obtaining frozen beef supply from overseas, even before the containers hit our shores.
It is learnt the meat cartel syndicates would trace information on the price and quantity of the meat from abattoirs.
By Olajide Idowu (08032822525)
Osogbo, Jan. 13, 2021 Osun Government on Wednesday appealed to Ponmo Dealers Association, Osun Chapter, to join forces with the Osun State Ministry of Agriculture to prevent importation of contaminated cow skin, popularly called “Ponmo” or “Kanda”, into the state.
According to it, the most worrisome are the “ponmos’’ soaked with formalin disinfectants.
Mr Adedayo Adewole, the Commissioner for Agriculture, in a statement by Mrs Segilola Babalola, the Press Officer of Osun Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, gave the charge during a stakeholders meeting with the Ponmo Dealers Association in Osun.
The forum was organised by the Department of Veterinary Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security in Osogbo.
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By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo
Osun state Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Adedayo Adewole has warned the public to be wary of bad cow skin popularly known as ‘ponmo’ in circulation.
This is as the Commissioner also urged Ponmo Dealers’ Association in the state to join forces with the Ministry of Agriculture to prevent importation of bad ‘Ponmo’ into the state, especially the ones soaked with formaline disinfectants.
A statement issued by the Ministry’s Information Officer, Segilola Babalola, stated that Adedayo gave the charge during stakeholders meeting with Ponmo Dealers’ Association organised by the Department of Veterinary Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security in Osogbo.
The imported halal meat fiasco has all the elemental components of a crime: smuggling; faking; a network of cheating syndicates, from the starting point to the consumer table; multinational actors to facilitate multiple functions at multiple points; and unchecked and unpunished, allegedly, for 40 years.
It is another corruption case that the public has to swallow. This time, the public is robbed of safe, genuine, quality and, to the Muslims, halal meat a betrayal in all dimensions to consumers.
The case begs the question as to why it was left unchecked for such a long time. Logically, it means that it must have been well planned, tested and proven, or that the system is so weak that it failed to prevent such a serious situation.
Meat board takes charge to control FMD outbreak in Namibia
Meat board takes charge to control FMD outbreak in Namibia
By Annelie Coleman
January 11, 2021 at 5:43 pm
Since the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in Namibia in late 2020, FMD surveillance has been intensified, and some farmers have been asked to present their cattle for inspection.
Photo: FW Archive
The recent foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in Namibia at the end of 2020 was largely contained and did not pose a threat to areas south of the veterinary cordon fence in the north of the country, according to Thinus Pretorius, chairperson of Nambia’s Livestock Producers’ Organisation (LPO).