KANO- Kano State Government has spent N1.6 billion on the upgrading of slaughterhouses in 20 local government areas of the state.
The project was executed through the State Agro-Pastoral Development Project(KSADP), in collaboration with development partners namely, Islamic Development Bank(IDB),Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Qatar Foundation.
Other partners in the project were:King Salman Humanitarian and Relief Centre and Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development.
The KSADP Infrastructure Engineer, Zahraddeen Zarewa, disclosed this to journalists at one of the completed slaughter houses at Kura in Kura Local Government Area.
Other local governments where the facilities were sited, Zarewa said,included: Rano, Doguwa, Shanono,Bebeji, Dawakin Tofa, Tudun Wada and Bichi.
He said the decision to upgrade the slaughterhouses was informed by the unhygienic condition under which meat was being processed for human consumption in the benefitting areas.
“It is so sad that when you visit any of our abattoirs within Kano or in the local governments,you will hate to even eat meat because of the way it was being processed and handled.
”That is why the Kano State Government decided to upgrade or create new abattoirs in the local government areas,” Zarewa said.
The infrastructure engineer said each of the slaughterhouses was provided with four slabs, solar-powered boreholes and hangers.
They were provided with solar fans,cooler room, two industrial freezers,animal dung drier and the office of the ‘Sarkin Fawa’ (Chief butcher) of the area.
According to him,the slaughterhouses had been handed over to the chief butchers and their teams to operate and maintain them.
In his remarks, the chief butcher of Kura Local Government Area,Alhaji Ubale Kura, expressed delight at the provision of the slaughterhouse, saying the facility would enhance their business.
Kura, however, urged KSADP to provide a drainage around the building to facilitate the outflow of waste water.(NAN)
