I thought dog meat was tasty – suspect

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Cheboto was charged with being found in possession of dog meat which is unfit for human consumption and contrary to public health act/XINHUA

NAKURU, Kenya, May 3 – The man who was caught slaughtering a dog at the Nakuru dumpsite a few days ago has told a court that he did not know it was an offence.

James Cheboto told Resident Magistrate Judicaster Nthuku that he was not aware that dog meat was unfit for human consumption and pleaded for leniency.

Cheboto was charged with being found in possession of dog meat which is unfit for human consumption and contrary to Public Health Act.

He pleaded guilty of the offence but pleaded with the court to forgive him because he did not know that it was wrong to feed on dog meat.

“I did not know that dog meat is unfit for human use and I appeal to this court to forgive me and set me free because I am the sole-breadwinner for my family,” said the 37-year-old father of one.

The court also heard that Cheboto had been charged two other times but with different offences.

On May 1, Cheboto was found at the Nakuru dumpsite by residents of London Estate slaughtering a dog.

The angry residents made him carry the dog’s carcase, the skin and the head to the nearby Nakuru District Veterinary offices two kilometres away.

There was drama on the Nakuru-Kabarak road as the angry residents escorted him with his exhibits with motorists and passers-by stopping to catch a glimpse of him.

At the veterinary offices, he confessed to slaughtering dogs, boiling the carcases and using the soup to ‘treat epilepsy.’

  • http://twitter.com/kingzhero Afriti Kizee

    Is dog meat unfit for human consumption? I dont eat dog but I understand some part of the world do! And I did not know that there is a law prohibiting dog eating locally!?

  • Bkimani

    Obama ate dog meat. Its okay for Kenyans to eat dogs.
     

  • Okarip

    These kind of laws  are the remnants of colonialism ,telling people when and what to eat. Nothing that goes into the stomach is bad rather what comes out .Dogs are clean animals that is why we tame them and so are juicy for ameal. Please let the  man eat the already slaugthered one just for once!

  • http://www.facebook.com/hilda.biegon.9 Hilda Biegon

    Japanese and Chinese eat Dog meat. Then how is it harmful to human consumption? 

  • Geoffrey Galo

    I think dogs have nice meat compared to snakes and pigs, coz this one’s you find them on gabbages eating horrible things that one can’t bliv…. let us just be realistic guys… go to forests near tell me whether you can find a snake, where are they going to if not in the many chinese restourant’s we see a round? Dogy sio mbaya…

  • Mbemba Nziu

    I personally have  eaten dog, donkey, snake, snail,crocodile, frogs, termites, tortoise name it, and they are just fine some even sweeter than common meats. I didn’t know a dog is unfit for human consumption I thought it was personal choice.

    Mbemba.

  • A.K. F.C

    Quoran = Mein Kamf