Barely four weeks after thunderbolt allegedly struck 36 cows to death at Ijare in Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State, lightning has reportedly killed eight cows in another part of the state.
The incident was said to have occurred at Ekan quarters, Ikare-Akoko in Akoko North East Local Government Area on Tuesday.
Newsafresh.com gathered that the incident was however kept a secret by the affected herdsmen who planned to sell the meat to the unsuspecting public.
They were said to have roasted the meat and already selling the chunks before they were apprehended.
Consequently, the Ondo State Government has banned sales of cow meat allegedly struck to death in Ikare-Akoko.
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The Director of Environmental Health Services in Akoko North-East Local Government, Mrs Yemisi Adeniyi and her counterpart from Akoko Northwest, Mr Ojo Anthony, said they had arrested some butchers.
The environmentalists, who mobilised other experts on Thursday morning to the scene of the incident, seized the cow meat for immediate fumigation.
The health experts, therefore, cautioned the people of Akoko to stay away from cow meat in the next few days to avoid consumption of such traditionally and medically unsafe cow meat allegedly killed by the thunderstorm.
The Chairman of Butchers’ Association in Ikare, Mr Kabiru Ismaila, also said he was working with government’s environmental health officials to ensure such cow meat was not sold in Akoko markets in the next few days.