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The police high command in Kaduna has apprehended no
fewer than 34 persons comprising 20 men, 12 women and two
minors from villages around Kaduna metropolis at the
weekend for exhuming over 6,000 cartons of contraband
frozen chicken and other related poultry products worth over
N35 million.
The arrested persons, who came from Mando and Buruku
villages exhumed the chicken barely 48 hours after the
Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone
B, had destroyed, burnt and buried the contraband poultry
products.
The customs had carried out the destruction of the frozen
chicken in the presence of officials of Kaduna State Police
Command, Kaduna State Environmental Protection Agency
(KEPA) and some newsmen at the dump site designated by
KEPA along Birnin Gwari/Kaduna Highway last
Thursday.
Parading the suspects before newsmen in kaduna, the police
public relations officers, DSP Zubairu Abubakar, said the
suspects were arrested following information to the police
that some persons from the neighbouring villages were
exhuming contraband frozen chicken buried by the Nigeria
Custom Service.
He said, “These are the suspects we have arrested in
connection with exhuming of frozen chickens buried by the
operatives of the Nigeria Customs. The chickens were buried
at state government approved dump site along Buruku/
Kaduna road in conjunction with KEPA.
“We got information that people were exhuming the
contraband chickens that were buried and we rushed there
and arrested about 34 suspects, they are with us.
“So far, we have charged them for consumption and sale of
adulterated food and drinks.”
Also, commenting on the arrest, the public relations officer
of customs, Zone B, Idris Ado, warned members of the
public to beware of frozen chickens that must have found
their way into the market, saying that they are not fit for
human consumption.
Ado said, “As you are all aware, we carried out the
destruction of contraband frozen chicken last Thursday at a
dump site provided by KEPA, and in the cause of
destroying these products, the following organisations were
invited to witness the destruction: the director of the State
Security Service was represented, the Nigeria Police was
represented, officials of KEPA were there and members of
the press also witnessed the destruction.Unfortunately we
got the information that some unscrupulous Nigerians went
there to exhume them and evacuated some of the chickens to
the market.These chickens are not good for human
consumption because they contain some toxic chemicals.
“They have taken them to the town, but we are lucky that
officers and men of the police were handy to arrest these
suspects. So we are calling on the public to beware of these
products because they are not fit for human consumption”.
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