By Adadareporters
Nigerians have been warned against eating animal skins because they ‘have no nutritional values, and dangerous to human health’.
Nnadi Ajanwachukwu, a don of the veterinary department of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, stated this while interacting with our correspondent. He described eating ‘kpomo’ as economic waste, adding that Nigerians ‘should be blamed for lacking manufacturing capacities’.
In his words, “Kpomo doesn’t contain anything that is nourishing. Any society that eats ‘kpomo’ is not a productive society because ‘kpomo’ can be used in the manufacture of many useful things. Examples are leathers for making of bags, shoes, belts, and for export purposes. When you eat ‘kpomo’, raw materials for all these things are destroyed, meanwhile Nigeria is an importing nation.
“There are diseases that are called zoonotic. They are transmissible from animal to man and vice-versa. There is currently a scare in the country and other African countries about a disease called anthrax. It has no cure. It can easily be contracted by humans through animal skins, especially cattle, because anthrax hides in ‘kpomo’.”
