The federal government says it is proposing legislation to ban the consumption of animal skin, locally known as ponmo, in the country to revive tanneries.

Muhammad Yakubu, director-general, Nigerian Institute of Leather and Science Technology (NILEST), Zaria, said this in Abuja on Sunday.

Yakubu said the litigation was necessary to revive the comatose leather industry in the country.

He said the habit of eating animal skin, which has no nutritional value, should be stopped to save the industry and boost the nation’s economy.

The director-general added that the institute, in collaboration with stakeholders in the industry, would approach the national assembly and state governments to bring out legislation banning “ponmo” consumption.

“To the best of my knowledge, Nigerians are the only people in the world that overvalue skin as food, after all, Ponmo has no nutritional value,” he said.

“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.”

According to him, the consumption of animal skin is partly responsible for the present comatose state of tanneries in Nigeria.

He also said the current National Leather Policy had addressed some fundamental problems of the sector.

“If we get our tanneries, our footwear and leather production working well in Nigeria, people will hardly get pomo to buy and eat,” Yakubu said.

“When implemented fully, it would turn around most of the comatose tanneries and ginger greater output in production.”

Yakubu appealed to stakeholders to support the legislation and the national leather policy to revive the sector.

NILEST was set up to promote leather production as provided in the Agricultural Research Institute Act of 1975. The institute conducts research the production and products of leather and the utilisation of local tanning materials in the country.

BurialGround:


If you ban Ponmo how will an average Yoruba woman survives?

BurialGround:


If you ban Ponmo how will an average Yoruba woman survives?

Pandev:
Which kain mumu talk be this? Imagine better ponmo wey don soak stew on top my rice and beans, damn. Normal normal ponmo sweet.

Pandev:
Which kain mumu talk be this? Imagine better ponmo wey don soak stew on top my rice and beans, damn. Normal normal ponmo sweet.

Unzerious:
Fg will have to pass through Me first

Buka Stew without Ponmo is APC without Tinubu

forgiveness:
I don't that pomo one beat from the time I learnt it adds nothing to the body.

Bobloco:


They are inseparable

owobokiri:
Nigerians are starving because of the food policies of the fulani led government. Just take a look at ordinary Nigerians on the street. You can easily point out the ones that came back from overseas and the ones that are stuck in this lugardian hellhole. The main reason is that Nigerians at home don't eat enough. Especially protein! Meat is quickly disappearing from the food Nigerians eat. It's only in Nigeria that they ask you "how many meats" you need in your soup? This is because the government set up policies after the civil war to ban many food imports. Nigerians have to buy foods supplied by the North only. This is more like a monopoly!

Today, the price of a cow is chasing almost half a million naira! How can the ordinary man eat meat every meal then? In other countries, if the local production runs short, they import in other not starve their people. It's the case in both Asia Europe and the Americas. But in Nigeria, whether there are bountiful harvests or not, no one imports anything that can be produced in the north into this country, It's time to liberalize this area. Nigerians are starving. Many neighboring West African countries who are far poorer that Nigeria, feeds their people better. Folks have money to start ranching business across board but the government is only interested in ruga, because it only favours the fulani.

Christistruth00:



Raise Quails for meat they multiply fast