₦airaland Forum

On Monday, I bought indomie and egg takeaway from a restaurant in Benin City and it almost cost me my life. I developed acute stomach ache afterwards and the doctor said it was food poisoning. I was bedridden for 3 days.

Yesterday while surfing Nairaland, I came across this thread https://www.nairaland.com/3724201/nairalander-spotted-mile-12-market. What surprised me was that people were not concerned about the unhygienic environment the tomatoes were sold. This is a market that feed millions of Nigerians daily.

Recently the European Union banned Nigerian beans because of the high amount of pesticides they contain, these are the same beans we consume daily.

A large percentage of foods sold in Nigeria wouldn't be fit for selling in developed countries. I would list some ways we eat unhygienic food.

1. Evil middle men: These people can sell raw poison to make money. They use carbide to ripe fruits, they use formaldehyde used in preserving dead bodies to preserve fish and meat.

In Ikpoba hill market Benin City, palm oil traders would mix palm oil with a white chemical and recook it. One drum of palm oil would give them 3 drums. In the same market, people sell donkey meats. Restaurant owners buy them to sell as beef.

2. Little or no meat inspection: Before an animal is killed in an abattoir, Heath workers ought to inspect them to ensure they are fit for eating. Some animal disease are contagious to humans. But in our country, anything goes.

3.Incorrect Use of Pesticides by Farmers: Most Nigerian farmers can't calculate the exact pesticides to apply. In most cases they apply too much. This chemicals enter the crops and gets into the body of the consumers. Also there is usually a waiting period between the application of pesticides to when the crops would be fit again for eating. But in Nigeria, a farmer can apply insecticide to his vegetables in the morning and sell from the vegetables in the evening. They can also give Chicken drugs in the morning and sell from the chickens in the evening.

It is time for young agriprenuers to revolutionalise the Nigerian food sector so that healthy foods can be made available to the local consumers. I am glad one of our own jasper7 has started something ( Vegolas Farmers Market) I'm glad to have been part/still part of the project. It is not easy, but we would surely get there.

@agritech. very nice observation. its really alarming. CPC and NAFDAC are dead agency.

Munzy14:
@agritech. very nice observation. its really alarming. CPC and NAFDAC are dead agency.

They really need to do much more.

Someone will soon accuse you of forming oyibo, look at the filthy environs where those basket of tomatoes are kept, is to difficult for governments to cement that floor and put a basic shed out there.. Someone told me Nigerians must have an immunity second to none.. Two senators one month salary could easily provide a basic shed in these vegetable markets..This country sickens me.. Compare the filth where those tomatoes are been sold to this market stall, is this too difficult to implement??.. smdh

Baroba:
Someone will soon accuse you of forming oyibo, look at the filthy environs where those basket of tomatoes are kept, is to difficult for governments to cement that floor and put a basic shed out there.. Someone told me Nigerians must have an immunity second to none.. Two senators one month salary could easily provide a basic shed in these vegetable markets..This country sickens me.. Compare the filth where those tomatoes are been sold to this market stall, is this too difficult to implement??.. smdh

Aptly put.