LASG shutdown ponmo market

Abattoir in Lagos

The Lagos State Government has closed
down the ponmo (processed cow skin)
processing section of the Oko-Oba Abattoir
and Lairage Complex, Agege, and dislodged
the processors in the complex.


The Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr.
Toyin Suarau, who led men of the Lagos
State Task Force on Environmental and
Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit and
some officials from the Ministry of
Agriculture to the area on Saturday, said that the bonfire emitted a
thick toxin smoke which spread within the
complex and adjoining neighbourhood,
adding that the smoke and the unhygienic
way of processing the cow skin were
harmful to human health.
He explained that the closure of the processing section was
because of the health hazard posed by
activities of the processors who treated
cow skins in a heap of burning tyres.


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