"SNIPER" IN BEANS!

Hello Nigerians. Yes, What you don't know can kill you!
Some Nigerians have expressed alarm at the revelations from the following video. "Sniper", (not the real name), is a family of powerful insecticides identified by Nigerians and liberally applied without regulatory controls for containing the spread of insect pests, especially cocroaches, in homes. Apparently in order to minimize losses in stored agricultural products, Sniper is now being used for food preservation. This is a very dangerous trend which obviously did not start today. The practice only makes headlines when an entire family dies from poisoning as a result of excessive ingestion of the active agent.
One commentator has asked, "What is wrong with us?" I will try to answer that question as follows: We start by lowering our expectations from agencies created by government like NAFDAC. Then we undermine them by allowing other agencies to interfere with their mandate simply because their work seems more glamorous and gets more raving press reviews. Here I am referring to SON which a few years ago started commenting on quality and specifications of food and food additives eg palm oil at Oyingbo Market. One would imagine that NAFDAC had closed shop. . As if that was not bad enough, here comes the Consumer Protection Agency. Yes-oo, job for the Boys and Girls! . It's first major public involvement was with the issue of the already documented and codified additives in Coca-Cola, Sprite, etc. I recall that a prominent writer ignorantly joined this controversy, from which I had restrained myself. This matter has been winding it's way through the court system. I wonder on whose side NAFDAC would give evidence? Or would the courts and the establishment assume that NAFDAC is dead? .
Under this deliberately confusing environment, who then is left to do the laborious and clandestine work of tracking down those who use "Sniper", "Ota Pia-pia" or whatever, for weevil control in harvested agricultural produce? Clearly nobody.

Nigeria has for long been led by dunces. That's the way it is.