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Ogun State Government Alerts Residents on Killer 'Ponmo' in Markets

Posted by Lolade on Fri 06th Nov, 2015 - tori.ng

Ogun State Government yesterday, called the attention of residents to the sale of poisonous cow skin, popularly called 'ponmo', in markets across the state.

The state government, on Thursday November 5, alleged that ‘some unscrupulous businessmen’ attempting to exploit the current scarcity of cattle hide and skin used in preparing the ponmo’ have resorted to selling industrial hide and skin treated with tanning chemicals to unsuspecting members of the public.

The state Commissioner for Agriculture, Mrs. Ronke Sokefun who addressed a press conference on the sale of the unhealthy and dangerous ‘ponmo’, revealed that such cattle hides and skin had been treated with tanning chemicals used for the production of leather, and so, are unfit for human consumption.

She however stated that the state Ministry of Agriculture and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) had already commenced investigation into the development and had been on the trail of the importers of the unhealthy ‘ponmo’.

The commissioner also disclosed that the officials of the ministry had been in ‘strategic liaisons’ with the state Ministry of Health and the Environmental Health Departments of the 20 local government areas to confiscate the unhealthy ‘ponmo’ from all markets in the state.