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Bulawayo Council to tighten security at disposal site where a vendor is suspected to have been getting dog meat to sell to residents.
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has said it will tighten security at its carcasses disposal site where a vendor is suspected to have been getting dog meat for sell to residents.
The local authority has also urged residents to buy meat from registered butcheries only.
Last Thursday, council raided a homeless Bulawayo man identified only as Ndebele and confiscated 148kgs of dog meat. The man, whose mental state could not be established, is suspected to having been selling the meat to residents of Sizinda suburb and surrounding areas.
BCC senior public relations officer Mrs Nesisa Mpofu said council burnt the dog meat which was confiscated from the man and referred the matter to the police.
She said the man, who operated near the National Railways of Zimbabwe Steam Shed, said he got the meat from the municipality disposal site situated in Westondale.
“Security at the Municipal dead animals disposal site will be strengthened. Health education of residents on the importance of buying meat only from registered butcheries will continue,” Mrs Mpofu said.
“There are diseases which can be transmitted through consumption of diseased animal meat. The diseases are commonly referred to as zoonotic diseases. Statutory Instrument 50 of 1995 prohibits the sale, keeping, transport or exposure for sale any meat or offal unless it has been obtained from animals or birds that have been slaughtered in a registered slaughter-house and the meat or offal has been inspected by a meat inspector and passed as unconditionally fit for human consumption”.
Mrs Mpofu warned residents against buying meat from unregistered butcheries.
“Butchery operators are encouraged and monitored that they buy their stock from registered abattoirs and the general public is advised not to buy meat from the streets but from registered butcheries,” she said.
Mrs Mpofu said the case involving the possible selling of dog meat to residents has been referred to the police.
However, Bulawayo Police Spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango said the police have not received a report on the matter.
Source – chronicle