National Environmental Standard and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), on Thursday, seized a lion (cub) and arrested two men for alleged illegal trading in wildlife in Abuja.

Director, Environmental Quality Control of NESREA, Mr Ayuba Jacob, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the agency’s action against illegal wildlife traders, said that the act was a criminal offence.

Jacob warned against illegal wildlife trade in the country, adding that NESREA would continue to apprehend those involved in such act.

According to him, this animal is a cub lion. It is one of the endangered species who trade has been prohibited, both locally and internationally, as stated in the Endangered Species Act.

“It is the mandate of the agency to enforce these provisions and the purpose of the enforcement is to protect animal species, especially those that are endangered, to prevent them from going into extinction.

“This is an international criminal offence. There is no excuse in law; the offenders are going to be charged to court.

“We are making effort to ensure that Nigeria is not disgraced before the international community, not only in this particular animal specie, but other endangered species,” he said.

Jacob said that the agency was committed to creating strong awareness on enforcement of regulations.

”We are using the media to create awareness regularly all over the country and this is to ensure effectiveness of the awareness.

“We normally educate people, especially hunters, on the fact that there are some animals that need to be conserved for sustainable development.

“Such animals are going in great extinct; we are not seeing them again; they have been taken away; so they are being conserved,” he said.

Jacob said that a list of endangered animals was always made available during awareness campaigns.

“We ensure that we list such animals to the hunters. And it’s not only animals; even some trees, such as Iroko, Mahogany and others. We call the wildlife species,’’ he said.

The director, however, appreciated the efforts of the Nigeria Police Force and the staffers of National Park Service for making it possible for the seizure of the cub and the arrest of the suspected traffickers.

He said that the agency would continue to work with other relevant agencies to ensure that those engaging in the act were apprehended.

Jacob said that Nigeria was a signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

“We have the National Environmental Protection of Endangered Species in International Trade, Regulation 2011 and the Endangered Species Control of International Trade and Traffic, (Amendment) Act, 2016,” he said.

The cub lion had been handed over to the national park service by NESREA.

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2022/02/10/nesrea-seizes-lion-cub-arrests-2-illegal-wildlife-traders-in-abuja/


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lol if dem start to arrest people for snake na Nairaland dem go first come dem go pack people tire...

Na Lala go b d admin group leader...

They should reintroduce the lion to the ZOO, if you know, you know

Damnnn niggar
Nice

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Chai imagine having a big cat as pet........

Love

Ok

DJ Cuppy good morning ma.

Ok

Daily wahala.

Release the cub to yankari game reservation

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The country is being loted down while a crazy president is fixated on "grazing routes".
If you know what's going on in the solid mineral and logging sectors in this country, you will cry for a useless country..

Ayewada

No space

There are some Many Chinese in the bushes all across Nigeria raping our wildlife and Forest reserves.

They have poached our pangolins to near extintion.

Lion that will still kill the owner Las las

Great

A lion cub could be sold for $1m dollars in the open Arabian market....


NA other things

Give them the death penalty.

Ontop this harsh economy na I'm person dey rear lion? What do they feed them with? �

Abi person go get farm of animals cos he dey raise lion?

Sabadon:
Chai imagine having a big cat as pet........

Very normal in UAE

Why sieze it when you know you won't take care of it. They did not arrest those that kill endangered species and eat them, it is those that trade on lion cubs that they are arresting.

They just want to punish the cub for nothing.

Hmmm.
Foolish people.
Not that am supporting anyone keeping dangerous animals as pets or trading on them, but my anger is that NESREA will not take this action if it was a Senator or top govt official that was involved.
Govt agencies shouldn't be flexing their silly muscles when common citizens are involved but turn blind eyes when elites are involved.

But the animals starve in the zoos. Which way?