Three women has been arrested by a vigilante group for selling vulture and donkey meat in place of chicken and beef in a popular market in Bayelsa state.
The women who were identified as Doris, Finegirl, and Beauty, and hail from Ughelli community, in Delta state, were apprehended at the Tombia market Etegwe, Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa state and were handed over to men of the Akenfa Division, Bayelsa Police command.
The women who confessed selling Vulture meat and carcasses of donkeys to unsuspecting buyers, added that they bring these meats from neighbouring states into the state and sell at cheap and affordable prices to unsuspecting buyers, mostly those who own restaurants, bars and canteens.
Speaking with reporters during a parade of the suspects, the Yenagoa coordinator of the Vigilante Network, Comrade Bunas Samuel, advised all Bayelsans to be on alert and be careful on what they consume. He called on NAFDAC to live up to it's responsibility and checkmate the activities of food hawkers.
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