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Renowned celebrities and other social media users have reacted to news of Federal Government’s announced action to outlaw the consumption of animal skin, locally known as Kpomo.


According to internet reports, Mr Muhammad Yakubu, director-general of the Nigerian Institute of Leather and Science Technology (NILEST), Zaria, stated on Sunday that a legal move to restrict the use of animal skin was required to resurrect the country's dormant leather sector.


He went on to say that eating animal skin, which has no nutritional value, should be prohibited in order to save the sector and help the nation's economy.

He said:

“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

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.”

However, the proposal has stirred a plethora of reactions from social media users;

obi_cubana wrote: “Oh God! My best part of meat is gone, finally!”

discreet_fun_massage_lagos wrote: ” Kpomo go come turn illegal. Men go dey hide “

_iam_julye wrote: “So na kpomo be the problem for this country mtcheeeeeww”✍️✍️✍️ ✍️“feel free to disagree in the comments 👀 ☝️👆 & let JAIYEORIE know what U think!” 📎 COMMENTS 👈👉✍️🤳 DROP YOUR OPINIONS ✍️✍️✍️