Bad times for Nigerian donkeys
Each day about 5000 donkeys leave Maigatari market in Jigawa to the East where they are consumed as meat by many households.
That is just one statistics from Jigawa state alone. Some 15000 donkeys also passed from North East and Niger Republic to the South East, mostly Agbor, Anambra, Onitsha, Enugu and Abakalaki to meet similar fate.
Now it seems the donkeys are in for bigger trouble as the Chinese have also developed appetite, particularly for their meat and skin. Demand for donkeys has tripled over a short period of time. Meanwhile donkey is not bred in Nigeria on industrial scale and it is an animal that does not multiply with its very slow birthrate.
It is bad enough to consume the gentle beast locally but worse to see it exported to China.
Who will save the donkey? States in the North should legislate against trading of donkeys for export to other parts of the federation.
The Federal Government must urgently place a ban on exportation of donkey and it’s by-product to the outside world, for now China.
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