Two weeks ago, The Nation had broken the story that poisonous ponmo was in circulation in Lagos. And, following the wide reactions it generated, the reporter went about the task of unravelling the syndicate behind the unwholesome business and how they normally delivered the poisonous item at a big warehouse in lgando area of the Lagos metropolis.
The reporter would later find that after the first story on ponmo was published penultimate Saturday, Mrs. Animashahun, a big distributor of the item, who was very boastful and hostile to the reporter during his first visit to the warehouse, had gone back to the community leaders with his lawyer, begging that she should be given the chance to sell her poisonous item until August ending when she would relocate her shop.
Unfortunately for her, she had barely settled down when some officials of the Ministries of Health and Agriculture got a tip-off that another consignment of poisonous ponmo had arrived the community. He said: “As soon as we received the tip-off, members of the task force, the police and all our officers went into action and we arrested about six people. The consignment of poisonous ponmo was also confiscated. We are going to do a lab investigation on it. This is to assure the public that our team is on top of the matter and we are doing all we could to apprehend all members of the syndicate of this poisonous ponmo.
“We will not rest on our oars until we get to the root of the matter. We have also written a letter to the Quarantine Service. Anybody that is bringing such into the country should be properly investigated. the source must be verified. Everything we are doing is for the protection of the people so that they will not be consuming poison instead of ponmo.
“According to the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Oluwatoyin Suarau, the special operation, which led to the arrest of operators of the factory, was based on a tip-off by concerned members of the public who became suspicious of activities in the warehouse where offensive stench oozes out during the preservation of the consignment.
“Suarau, while stating that investigation into the source of the poisonous ‘Ponmo’ has since commenced, noted that the Ministry of Agriculture has set up a monitoring and investigation committee, headed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Olayiwole Onasanya, to get the source of the poisonous ‘Ponmo’ and dislodge factories and illegal abattoirs where they are being processed.
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