Residents of Okpoama kingdom in Brass Island, Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, butchered a giant fish suspected to be a whale found washed ashore on the Okpoama beach area of the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday morning.

DAILY POST learnt that the stranded fish was grounded on Tuesday night due to a low sea wave at the river bank.

Residents of the kingdom met the stranded whale on Wednesday morning and trooped out with machetes, hawk shaws and axes to butcher the fish, which appeared dead.


An indigene of the community and a former Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Bayelsa State, Mr Tarinyo Akono, said the whale may have died after it got stranded due to a low tide on Tuesday, adding that if it was found alive, it could perhaps have been rescued and sent back to the sea.

The youth president of Okpoama community, Seiyefa Felix Ben-Basuo, also confirmed the incident, saying the people were still at the waterside butchering the animal because of its huge size.

The high tide from the river due to the rainy season might have brought the whale to the bank, where it was stranded. A similar giant whale got stranded at the same waterside and was also butchered by the residents in August 2019.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/Residents-butcher-whale-washed-ashore-Bayelsa-beach

they butchered the stranded animal... in this economy, i dont blame them. some will call it "godsent"!

there will be a WHALE PEPPER SOUP feast in that area tonight.

Poor whale…thanks for coming to the aid of the people. This is to more whales!😊

There's no way they would have still not butchered it if it was found to be still alive nigerians are not that civilised to that extent not in this tinibu's hash economy.

A whale is not a fish you egg.

Mrexcell:
There's no way they would have still not butchered it if it was found to be still alive nigerians are not that civilised to that extent not in this tinibu's hash economy.

You will have to explain why it is "uncivilised" to kill and eat an animal that will have died if humans don't take any action to save it in the first place.

You want to argue that they are endangered right? The people who classified them as endangered are the one who made them endangered in the first place not villagers in Bayelsa.

Whale fish pepper soup..
Nice

This is a cause for concern. Just in case what disease incapacitated the whale or wreck it.


Hope the disease can't be transmitted to human?

Time will tell

It'd have polluted the area if they didn't butchered it, since the whale is dead.

It's colorful and people will gladly devour this into their stomach?


Anyway, I just want to remind Nigerians that we're in a mess as we are currently all experiencing hardship together.

Whether you voted for Tinubu or Peter Obi..... We are all suffering together.....


The suffering is our turn to suffer... Emi lo Kan for suffering!

What the big deal in this news?.

Many countries eat whale meat.

There's hunger, and I'm left wondering if the President is aware of the food price inflation.

It seems like we don't have a president.

If this were during Buhari's tenure, we would have called him 'Aboki' or even joked that he had been replaced by Jibril from Sudan.

It's hard to tell if there's a functioning government in Nigeria at all

Poor journalism. Ordinary bayelsa here u can't provide us with proper pix and videos.
Una Kon carry Madagascar penguin put as pix.

Nonsense!

I'm

Mynd44:

You will have to explain why it is "uncivilised" to kill and eat an animal that will have died if humans don't take any action to save it in the first place.

You want to argue that they are endangered right? The people who classified them as endangered are the one who made them endangered in the first place not villagers in Bayelsa.

So what are you saying in conclusion?
Is the animal endangered or not?
The animal is dead sha, but if it was living I put it to you that your argument would not stand

Hungar

Thank u Lord for the free meat.

What another one

Eating whale carcass.. God pls educate my people

EMXTAN1:
Whale fish pepper soup..
Nice

Whale is actually a mammal. So it tastes like meat.

Kwaramustgoodag:
Thank u Lord for the free meat.

Upon rotten dead animal that was washed ashore

No pictures or videos....that's big meat and food for a long long time, just roast it, dehydrate it or fill up your freezers.

Poshvector12345:

So what are you saying in conclusion?
Is the animal endangered or not?
The animal is dead sha, but if it was living I put it to you that your argument would not stand

White people have haunted, killed and eaten whales to to point that some species are endangered now.
But this particular one just died by dying.
We didn't kill it. We didnt haunt it.
So whomever, is free to eat it.
Whenever anybody touches something, it is white people that will shout the loudest, after creating all the global warming and endangering every animal on earth.

Enjoy my people. Na God give una. The hunger in the land is too terrible. Ebi npia wa.azu

A whale is not a fish you egg. ... Um, need help with your academic papers? Contact us.

It is strange how this news gets recycled from the same Brass LGA every year.

https://www.nairaland.com/3770183/huge-whale-killed-brass-bayelsa

https://www.nairaland.com/5332615/whale-killed-bayelsa-before-after

https://www.nairaland.com/7332121/photos-dead-whale-washes-ashore

https://www.nairaland.com/8129416/whale-butchered-okpoama-seaside-brass

uuzba:

White people have haunted, killed and eaten whales to to point that some species are endangered now.
But this particular one just died by dying.
We didn't kill it. We didnt haunt it.
So whomever, is free to eat it.
Whenever anybody touches something, it is white people that will shout the loudest, after creating all the global warming and endangering every animal on earth.

Like I said, and like you have pointed out the animal is dead of natural causes and so it's free for all. But saying we should start killing our own because the white has finish killing his own will not fly.
By the way, yes the white man hunted these animals to extinction, and yes the white man has also dedicated more money than any other to it's conservation.
If this animal go it will affect us too. It will not be a matter of tit for tat

Disgusting I can't eat whale 🐋 🐳 there hungry in that state

adenigga:


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Hungry Nigerians

Hunger in the land!