Afenifere, Gani Adams, Igboho To Launch Campaign Against Beef Consumption On Friday

<blockquote><b>Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho; the Are Ona Kankanfo, Gani Adams; and the Odua Peoples Congress under the leadership of Prince Segun Osinbote are set to launch a campaign against cows.</b><br><br>This is according to an advertorial published in The PUNCH on March 1, 2021.<br><br><b>The campaign which is tagged, <i>Anything But Cow Day</i>, will launch on Friday, March 5, 2021, and is being held in response to the boycott of the South by northern traders. The boycott has entered its 4th day.</b><br><br><b>The campaign, which is themed, <i>A one-day symbolic beef boycott towards terminating the cow pandemic- End COWVID-21</i> is expected to trend on Twitter with the #endcowpandemic.org and will be streamed live on Odua Peoples Communications Youtube channel.</b><br><br>Meanwhile, the strike action embarked on by the cattle and foodstuffs dealers under the aegis of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria has entered its fourth day.<br><br>The strike, which involved closing all routes linking the North to the South, has dominated discussions on social media.<br><br>The AUFCDN said at a press conference in Abuja on Monday that its leaders had been invited by the Department of State.<br><br>Services for blocking the supply of foodstuff and cattle from the North to the South.<br><br>The General Secretary, AUFCDN, Ahmed Alaramma, added that the President of the association, Mohammed Tahir, is currently with the DSS.<br><br>The blockade, which has entered its fourth day, was done in protest against the alleged killing of their members in the South.<br><br>They had also called on the Federal Government to pay them billions in compensation.</blockquote><br><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/afenifere-gani-adams-igboho-lead-campaign-against-cows-beef-consumption/%3famp=1">https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/afenifere-gani-adams-igboho-lead-campaign-against-cows-beef-consumption/%3famp=1</a>
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