The Nigeria Custom Service has impounded a trailer full of
smoked meat allegedly said to be monkey meat being imported into the country
through the Jibia border in Katsina state.
The Nation reports that NCS
Federal Operation Unit “zone B” led by OC of the team, Assistant
Comptroller, Gambo Azare deemed the seizure of the trailer loaded with monkey
meat necessary due to the Ebola rampage in the country. Topping many of the reasons also, is the
knowledge that the NCS has about monkeys being one of the major source of the
deadly Ebola Virus Disease.
The Nigeria Custom Service, which is alive to joining hands
with the government and citizens at large to curtail the pawns of this deadly
disease immediately set the monkey meats on fire, destroying it, under the
supervision of the Comptroller, Federal Operation, Zone B of the service, ATS Maine
and the deputy governor of Katsina State represented by the Commissioner for health.
According to the officer who led the operation, Assistant
Comptroller, Gambo Azare, the driver of
the trailer full of the infectious meat ran away, abandoning the trailer when
he noticed he was being trailed by men of the NCS, a trail which later turn into
a hot chase that made the man to abandon the vehicle when it entered a ditch.
Furthermore, AC Azare made it known that the body that
regulates foods in the country, National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), directed
that the intercepted monkey meat was directed to be destroyed within 24 hours
as delay can be injurious.
It would be recalled that just recently an American doctor
has claimed he had the technological remedy to Ebola.
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