Health officials intercept dead cows en-route slaughter and sale, arrest traders

If you are a meat lover from Eldoret town and its environs, chances are that you might have consumed meat from an uninspected animal-probably sickly or already dead by the time of slaughter.

On Saturday, public health officials from Uasin Gishu County busted a group of unscrupulous traders at Kambi Somali ferrying 12 cows, four dead, to a nearby abattoir for slaughter before being distributed to various eateries and butcheries. The remaining eight were too weak to stand on their own.