Bamenda Butchers Union President condemns uncontrolled slaughter and sale of meat.

Anye George, President of the Butchers Union in Bamenda has condemned the uncontrolled slaughter and sale of cow meat within the city. He was speaking recently during the maiden contact tour of the new Divisional Officer of Bamenda III Sone Clement Ngoe. 

D.O. Sone Clement Ngoe and Anye George

Speaking with the authority of a President for two years and a member of the union for 37 years now and a member of the executive for 15 years and as the former treasurer and adviser, Anye George said the main problem was the way meat for human consumption is being handled in the municipalities of the Bamenda City Council. He said the main cause of the problem was the City Council. “In the market we don’t have where they sell meat especially at the Nkwen Market. We have relayed this problem time and time again to the City Council and all they say is we are coming but nothing ever happens. The taxes paid by the slaughter house are very high. Now that we manage it with the Council, the city council makes more than a million FCFA monthly from the slaughter house monthly.”

The President further said despite the high earnings from the slaughter house, the City Council had failed to provide decent selling points for meat in the markets. The main structure at the slaughter house he said was begging for restructuring and updating to meet up with increasing needs but nothing was being done despite the huge sums of money the council earns from it.

Talking about the economic fallouts of the activities of the Bamenda Butchers Union, Anye George said there were more than seventy butchers and that more than two hundred butcher boys had been employed.

Anye George however reiterated the problems of the unhealthy handling of meat destined for human consumption in the following manner. “Many people still slaughter cows in their yards especially during festive end of year periods. One cow it should be known can send even fifty people to the hospital through ailments like tuberculosis which can be rampant in cows. With such things still possible, the dangerous activity of meat hawking which is a resulting effect of uncontrolled slaughter will be very difficult to control.”

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