As the FG endeavours to prohibit the consumption of animal skin, “Ponmo,” Obi Cubana and others reacted.
Online rumors claim that Mr. Muhammad Yakubu, director-general of the Nigerian Institute of Leather and Science Technology (NILEST), Zaria, said on Sunday, September 18, that the government needed to take legal action to outlaw the eating of animal skin in order to restore its leather sector.
In order to boost the economy of Nigeria, he said, animal skin has little nutritional value and should be discouraged from consumption.
In his words, he stated ;
“To the best of my knowledge, Nigerians are the only people in the world that overvalue skin as food, after all, Ponmo has no nutritional value. At one point, there was a motion before the two chambers of the national assembly, it was debated but I don’t know how the matter was thrown away
If we get our tanneries, our footwear and leather production working well in Nigeria, people will hardly get pomo to buy and eat. When implemented fully, it would turn around most of the comatose tanneries and ginger greater output in production.”
Obi Cubana bemoaned the loss of his favorite meaty component in response to the news. Several opposing remarks were also made by other social media users.
See different reacts here ;
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