Abuja livestock market assistant devotes extra time to cater for kid goats

Bashir Rabiu works as an assistant to the animal traders as well as their buyers at the Abuja livestock market, located in Die-Dei area of the FCT.

At the Abuja livestock market in the Die-Dei neighborhood of the FCT, Bashir Rabiu assists both animal sellers and purchasers.

He works for several merchants in the industry, tending to their animals at their market stalls and assisting in loading purchased animals into the buyer's vehicle or transporting them to the slaughter for a small fee.

Rabiu also told Abuja Metro during a Christmas Eve visit to the market that he spends his spare time caring for young goats that wind themselves up in the business market due to unforeseen circumstances.

According to him, the majority of these newborn goats are born while their mothers are being transported to the market or after they arrive.

Their mothers, on the other hand, would not be spared from being sold or slaughtered by their owners as a result of this situation, according to Rabiu.

Our reporter approached the young man as he was walking towards some goats in the market to milk them, inquiring as to what he intended to do with the milk.

Rabiu stated that he uses the milk to feed these babies in order to keep them alive. Each baby goat, according to him, consumes roughly a liter of milk per day, and I am in charge of caring for those in my care for around two months, at which point they are weaned and left to fend for themselves.

I'm not interested in what the animal owners are paying me; instead, I want to save their lives, he continued.