Sellers of bush meat yesterday ran out of patience as they marched to Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s office in Oyo State in regards to low sales due to the outbreak of the Ebola disease.
According to Mr Iyalode and Alhaja Risikat Odeyemi, who spoke unbehalf of the Bushmeat Sellers Association of Oyo State:
“Our meats do not have any Ebola virus. We don’t know why people should just be peddling rumour that would be injurious to other people. This is not good at all. They have spoilt our business without any good reason. What we heard is that the disease was contacted through the river. Why should they be so unfair?”They said before the emergence of the Ebola virus in Nigeria, antelopes and a grass-cutter meats were selling between N2,000 and N4,000 but now, they hardly record a single sale.
“We normally stand by the roadside to invite prospective buyers. But, now when we call them to buy bush meats they always reply us saying, “Ebola”. It is the same meat we have been eating and nothing has happened to us”, Odeyemi said.
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