Kumasi abattoir to ease access to wholesome meat products

The Kumasi Abattoir Company Limited has unveiled plans to afford the public easy access to wholesome meat products.

This includes the opening of additional outlets for processed meat to augment the existing three and an upscale of its door-to-door delivery activities.

The Kumasi Abattoir operates a mechanized factory in food animal slaughtering – dressing is under strict meat inspection to ensure carcass from the facility is hygienic for human consumption.

Assistant Manager Marketing, Michael Tongban tells Luv Biz the abattoir is committed to serving the public with healthy products.

“I am aware that people want to have access to our meat but because we don’t have more outlets people don’t know how to get our products to buy, so we’ll open more outlets and push more meat vans into the door-to-door activities so that people can get the meat products to buy,” he stated.

He however says the facility is challenged in charging commercial fees for its services due to its social service posture to encourage butchers to slaughter under wholesome conditions.

This, according to Mr. Tongban is hampering the company’s financial standing to procure machinery for enhance service delivery.

“If the government can come in to support us in terms of finances so that we can acquire new machines, because all our machines are import-base and the interest rate is making our operations very challenging. So we’ll be glad if the government can assist us to expand our operations,” he requested.

The Kumasi Abattoir currently serves four regions of Ghana and processes 26 products with plans for additional animals.

Acting Production Manager, Randy Afful is encouraging patronage of facilities at its disposal to reduce the risk of consuming unwholesome products.

“Regards the slaughter of sheep and goats, with our gas system it helps us to eliminate a lot of the carbon content that is often associated with the scrap car tyres which is the main cause of cancer and heart diseases,” he said.

The abattoir is promoting the use of the gas system to curtail the traditional slaughtering through the use of car tyres to burn the animals before peeling off the skin, posing serious environmental and health hazards.

Story by Kofi Adu Domfeh