Afenifere, Gani Adams, Igboho launch campaign against cows, beef consumption

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Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho; the Are Ona Kankanfo, Gani Adams; and the Odua People’s Congress under the leadership of Prince Segun Osinbote have launched a campaign against cow consumption.

The phase one of the  campaign, with the theme, ‘A one-day symbolic beef boycott towards terminating the cow pandemic- End COWVID-21’ –No more Nonmo, is scheduled for March 5, 2021.

It is  expected to trend on Twitter with the #endcowpandemic.org’ and will be streamed live on Odua Peoples Communications Youtube channel.

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The campaign states that “human lives are sacred” with the hash tag  #endcowpandemic.org’ is being held in response to the boycott of the South by northern traders.

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Meanwhile, the strike action embarked on by the cattle and foodstuffs dealers under the aegis of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria has entered its fourth day.

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The strike involved closing all routes linking the North to the South.

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

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The blockade was done in protest against the alleged killing of their members in the South.

The union is also asking the Federal Government to pay its members billions of Naira as compensation.

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