Greetings.

I wish to thank you all once agin for your interest bin being part of
the 1st National Conference on Animals. The build up is getting
interesting by the day and we are having trickles of participants
registering.

We have decided to extend the preliminary registrations to the end of
Next month and as such the second circular will be issued on the 1st
of September now. We urge you to kindly introduce this conference to
more people.

If you are interested in giving any lecture and you have not
indicated the topic, please kindly do as all this information
including the list of participants will be issued along with the
second circular. Pictures of cruelty to animals or video clips will
also pe appreciated at the conference.

We reasons of contigency and to save cost becuase as of now, we have
no notification of sponsorship, we are changing the conference venue
to Lagos. The exact Location will be containd in the second circular.
The conference will not also be fully residential except for those
coming from outside Lagos or Nigeria who might want us to make hotel
reservations for them at or close to the conference venue. Other
information will be contained in the second circular.

We are all doing a new thing in Nigeria and we must start to speak
up. Let me tell you somethings:
1] Do you know that in Farm raised chicken houses, the chickens are
crowded in cages, they are then subjected to fighting for space,
peaking, easy containimation to diseases and they still sell disesaed
or dead chickens. This raises a lot of human health issues- Zoonosis
as it is called.
2] I saw a cow, tied to a stick, with no space for movement, no water
and the cow excretes on its body, feed with little or no food for 3
weeks. Is this right?
3] I saw two baboons, and a wild animal I am yet to identify, chained
and used for circus entertained on the street of Lagos. They are
obviously beaten, their mouths gagged, with litle food and water in
order to tame them and they suffer so much cruelty in the habds of
humans.
4] Have you questioned yourself on the menace of stray dogs now
rampart in most places. Dogs are allowed to breed uncontrollably and
they suffer untold hardships.
5] I saw an Aliigator kept in a garden in Lagos. This alligator is
kept in a galvanised water tank with little or no water and rarely
feed. Alligators are endengered species. Can we do this? Can this be
allowed? Somepeople have to take action to care fopr this animals in
captivity as they would have been cared for if they are in the wild.
A lot of persons who own Parrots are guilty ofd this too. We have to
educate them on the proper human management of both farm, zoo or pet
animals.
6] Is Nigeria so lawless in terms of animal rights and protection?

Anyway, I hope I have been able to stir your mind a little of What
this conference stands to expose and we are to marshal a way forward..

Thank you.