RESIDENTS of the Okpoama community in Brass Local Council of Bayelsa State have butchered another a giant whale that was stranded in the community’s seaside.
The whale, measuring about 15 meters long and five meters wide, with a height of about three meters, which was already dead when it was discovered on the beach on Wednesday morning, June 19, was believed to have washed up by the high tide on Tuesday night and left on the shore as the sea water receded at low tide.
Tarinyo Akono, a former state chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bayelsa State Council, an indigene of the area, told a newspaper on Wednesday that the people were butchering the whale to smaller pieces, using machetes, hacksaws and axes.
Recall that in August 2019, a giant whale was stranded in the same seaside community and was also butchered by the residents for food.
