Professor Edem Eniang says the demand for vulture eggs among Nigerian politicians makes vultures an endangered species
A trader at Akparandem Market, Uyo, who
trades in birds, Madam, Etiowuwan Imoh, says an egg of a vulture costs
over N1m because of soaring demand A chieftain of the PDP, Professor
Jerrry Gana, states that Nigerians are eagerly waiting for the party to
return to power in 2019 Bird scientists have accused fetish politicians
who allegedly use vulture eggs in making charms for electing purposes of
threatening the existence of the birds.
The scientists said as the 2019 election
year approaches, the craze for vulture eggs among politicians had
increased. One of the scientists, an associate professor of the
department of forestry and natural environmental management at the
University of Uyo (UNIUYO) Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, Edem Eniang, said the
high demand for vulture eggs among Nigerian politicians for preparation
of voodoo to win elections now makes vultures an endangered species,
Vanguard reports.
“The vulture is a very special bird
created by God to serve as a natural vacuum cleaner, they clean-up all
available rubbish, but the politicians and favour seekers hunt and pick
the eggs of these special creatures for their fetish needs, diminishing
their population and not allowing the eggs to be incubated and hatched,”
he lamented.
As
it is, the existence of the vulture is greatly threatened, as Nigerian
politicians hunt desperately for its eggs. The bird is so important that
the United Nations set aside the first Saturday of September, every
year, as World Vulture Day.”
He said politicians hire community youths to hunt for the eggs by climbing very high trees to get the eggs for them.
“These youth climb Iroko trees in the
midnight to pick vulture eggs. They climb at darkest night knowing that
the vulture does not see in the night to steal their eggs,” he said.
“Unfortunately, the vultures do not lay
many eggs and they lay once in a year and the eggs are most hunted. The
scientist said Nigerian politicians are too desperate to get power,
adding that no one needs juju animism to win an election. A trader at
Akparandem Market, Uyo, who trades in birds, Madam, Etiowuwan Imoh,
confirmed that an egg of a vulture costs over N1m because of soaring
demand.
Vanguard stated that politicians spend
as much as N1.2m to buy a vulture egg untouched by human hands for
spiritual power allegedly embedded in the egg. The newspaper reported
that one touched by the human hand costs only N20, 000 in the local
market and that besides politicians, businesspersons also seek the eggs
for vulture for its alleged supernatural power.
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