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The Federal Government of Nigeria has on Friday warned citizens against the consumption of frozen chicken.
The government stated that such processed chicken causes kidney and other diseases.
Minister of State for Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri, made this disclosure while speaking with State House correspondents in Abuja after Acting President Yemi Osinbajo met with the President of Poultry Farmers’ Association of Nigeria, Mr Ayoola Oduntan.
The minister noted that “Most times, they use what they use to preserve dead bodies (to preserve frozen chicken) and it causes harm to the kidney”.
Lokpobiri said the meeting specifically charged the Nigeria Customs Service to improve its surveillance in order to stop importation of frozen chicken.
Lokpobiri said government had partly compensated poultry farmers whose farms were destroyed due to avian flu, adding that Osinbajo directed the Ministries of Agriculture and Finance to sort out an outstanding N1.7 billion payments to the poultry farmers.
The meeting was attended by the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun; the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele and the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Hameed Ali.