Nigerians react to FG’s plan to ban ponmo

Nigerians have taken to social media to react to the recent proposal by the Federal government to ban the consumption of animal skin, locally known as ponmo.

Muhammad Yakubu, director-general, Nigerian Institute of Leather and Science Technology (NILEST), Zaria, made this known in Abuja on Sunday adding that this was necessary to revive the comatose leather industry in the country.
“To the best of my knowledge, Nigerians are the only people in the world that overvalue skin as food, after all, Ponmo has no nutritional value. At one point, there was a motion before the two chambers of the national assembly, it was debated but I don’t know how the matter was thrown away,” he said.

“If we get our tanneries, our footwear, and leather production working well in Nigeria, people will hardly get pomo to buy and eat. When implemented fully, it would turn around most of the comatose tanneries and ginger greater output in production.”

Nigerians have since taken to social media to react to the proposed ban. Read some of the comments below;