Nigerian react as FG is set to ban Kpomo - "Misplaced priorities"

Prominent media figure Actress Monica Friday, Daddy Freeze, and other Nigerians have reacted to the federal government's proposal to outlaw the eating of kpomo, or animal skin, across the nation in order to revitalize tanneries.

This was stated in Abuja on Sunday by Muhammad Yakubu, director-general of the Nigerian Institute of Leather and Science Technology (NILEST), Zaria. According to him, the legal action was required to resurrect the nation's dead leather sector.

He argued that in order to save the industry and strengthen the economy of the country, people should cease consuming animal skin, which has no nutritious value. The institute would approach the national assembly and state governments to introduce laws banning the consumption of "kpomo," the director-general continued, in coordination with industry stakeholders.

He Said;

“To the best of my knowledge, Nigerians are the only people in the world that overvalue skin as food, after all, kpomo has no nutritional value. At one point, there was a motion before the two chambers of the national assembly, it was debated but I don’t know how the matter was thrown away,” 

He claims that the current status of the tanneries in Nigeria is mostly due to the consumption of animal skin. He added that several basic issues facing the industry had been addressed under the present National Leather Policy.

He went further to say;

“If we get our tanneries, our footwear and leather production working well in Nigeria, people will hardly get pomo to buy and eat. When implemented fully, it would turn around most of the comatose tanneries and ginger greater output in production.”

Reactions

However, Daddy Freeze responded to this via comments on the Instagram, writing:

“I love the fact that our country is run by utter geniuses.”

Monica Friday wrote,

“Can we ban darkness for one year instead? Justice for ponmo.”

Singer Chike wrote: 

“Oh Nooo!”

Officialdyijay wrote:

“So, this is Nigeria’s major issue now? Misplaced priorities.”

 Newsfill