Moi-moi packaged in nylon poisonous & Cancerous – Ogbeh

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, has said that moi-moi packaged in cellophane, popularly known as nylon, is synonymous to eating poison and can cause cancer.
The Minister said this when he appeared before the Senate C‎ommittee on Agriculture and Rural Development during a public hearing on Food Security Bill and Agricultural Cultural Quarantine.
Ogbeh added that sachet water, popularly called pure water, which has been exposed to heat of more than 28 degree centigrade, can also cause cancer to the body.
He explained that ‎polythene bags contain cancerous materials that are harmful to the body, adding that some of the properties of the polythene bags, made of synthetic petroleum materials, melt into the water after sun ray or heat exposure.
He also added that frozen chickens were preserved with formalin chemical used to preserve corpses.
According to him, packaging of moi moi in cellophane is cancerous.
Ogbeh added that if not for our practice of over boiling meat, many Nigerians would have been infected by tuberculosis from consumption of cow meat.
He said: “Many of the cows being moved from one place to the other by herdsmen are already infected with tuberculosis, but our practice of boiling meat very well here has been the saving grace from people being infected with the deadly disease.”
In his speech at the Public hearing, t‎he President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, said the need for food security in the country and a vibrant agricultural sector for the needed diversification of the nation’s economy moved the Senate into introducing the bills.