Nyambunwa residents of Giasaiga sub-location, Sameta sub-county have been warned against consuming uninspected meat during this Christmas season to avert contracting meat-related diseases.
Area clan elder Kasmir Maobe lamented that there were many backstreet butcheries mushrooming during Christmas festive season, endangering lives of meat consumers by failure to involve public health officials to inspect their meat before selling to the public.
Speaking to this writer on Tuesday morning in his area, Maobe said many unscrupulous butcher men take advantage of meat demand during the Christmas festive season to open unlicensed butcheries whose business run without public health certifications to the detriment of consumers' health.
"Many meat consumers in the rural parts of our county risk consuming infected meat if they do not take care since many unscrupulous butcher men have opened temporary butcheries which do not meet the standards of public health as they are not licensed to conduct such business," lamented Maobe.
He challenged members of the public to volunteer information to security agencies if they suspect someone selling uninspected meat to members of the public to ensure action is taken to protect members of the public from consuming infected meat during this Christmas festive season.