The Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service, NAQS, Monday, set ablaze N42 million worth illegally processed export-bound donkey skin in Sheda, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Head of Media, Communications and Strategies, NAQS, Dr. Gozie Nwodo, where the NAQS disclosed that the seized donkey skin was impounded during a string of precision raids on underground donkey skin warehouses and slaughter camps across the country.
According to the statement the raids, which were carried out with a detachment of men of the Nigerian Police from the Force Animal Branch, FAB, followed several unheeded warnings to the operators to shut down those warehouses and stop the decimation of Nigerian donkeys.
The Coordinator of the Operations, Deputy Comptroller-General of Quarantine, NAQS, Dr. Sunday Audu, said the destruction of the donkey skin already processed for illegal export will serve as a deterrent to other criminal-minded persons who engage or are planning to do so.
