Afenifere, Sunday Igboho to launch campaign against ‘cow meat’

Obinwannem News Afenifere, Sunday Igboho to launch campaign against 'cow meat'

Yoruba Activist, Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho; the Are Ona Kankanfo, Gani Adams; and the Odua Peoples Congress alongside Prince Segun Osinbote are set to launch a protest against cow.

The protest, tagged, ‘Anything But Cow Day,’ will be launched on Friday, March 5, 2021, and would be “a retailiation to the food blockade of the South by northern traders.

The yoruba protest , which is themed, ‘A one-day symbolic beef boycott towards terminating the cow pandemic- End COWVID-21’ is expected to trend on Twitter with the #endcowpandemic’ and will be streamed live on Odua Peoples Communications Youtube channel.

It had been reported Cattle dealers embark on strike, give cause of food restriction from North to South . The strike action was flagged off under the aegis of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of NIGERIA (AUFCDN); has entered its fourth day.

The boycott, which involved closing all roads linking the North to the South, has generated varied opinion all over the country .

The Association said at a press conference in Abuja on Monday that its leaders had been invited by the Department of Statem Services (DSS) for blocking the supply of foodstuff and cattle from the North to the South.

The General Secretary, AUFCDN, Ahmed Alaramma, added that the President of the association, Mohammed Tahir, is currently with the DSS.

Although Members of the association who deals on perishable goods has begged the association to call of the strike, lamenting they have lost goods worth millions of naira. But, the leadership of the association has remained resolute.

Ifesinachi Nnabugwu reporting, Obinwannem News

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