Meat entrepreneur challenges FG on improving power

…holds 10 years anniversary to rewards customers, less privileged A call has gone out to the Federal Government to do more in improving the power infrastructure in the country to help small-scale businesses in its capacity to create employment and do some Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Giving the advise in Lagos, the Chief Executive Officer of Meat Embassy, a first-class meat distribution company in Lagos, Mr. Babatunde Wilkey, said that besides the challenge of generating his own electricity to power his operation, his organsiation would have been able to do more in generating employment and reaching out to the less privileged in the society. Wilkey who spoke while briefing the media on activities lined up to celebrate the organisation’s 10 years of operation said within the period, they have been able to carve a niche for themselves in the hospitality industry and today a force to reckon with in the meat supply chain in most first-class hotels and other such places. According to Wilkey, “for the past ten years, The Meat Embassy has lived up to its credo, an organisation which was started with less than two hundred thousand naira (200,000) with two staff, a husband and a wife that worked their fingers to their bones, resulting in the organisation growing in leaps and bounds like a mustard seed with over thirty staff (30), with branches in five locations across the country.” He noted that his organization which has been recognized as the pre-eminent African beef supplier, providing superior brands and freshly packed beef, pork, lamb and goats meat to homes, hotels, resorts and hospitality businesses, does so with no form of chemicals or other preservatives added. He added that his organsiation which has contact with many animal breeders in the country, while also having its own moderate ranch, has started the first online meat supply business in the country, with free delivery to customers anywhere in Lagos and also added the Smoke House, which is a relaxation spot for well prepared meat culinary. “Our cutting edge is that we provide unrivalled quality meat, because veterinary doctors from the Ministry of Agriculture make sure all animals to be slaughtered are not diseased or hold no potential threat to human health, this we do in collaboration with NAFDAC. Again it is compulsory that all persons coming in and out of The Meat Embassy premises must get sanitized at the first point of entry to prevent any contact with or spread of disease. “Therefore as one decade is down, we believe as a mark of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS), I dare say come 5th – 12th January, 2019, The Meat Embassy shall be giving back to the society as a way of saying thank you. The lineup of activities include going to the orphanage homes to put smile on their faces, and will be followed by a raffle draw at the headquarter of The Meat Embassy on the 12th January, 2019 where, customers that buy goods worth three thousand and above (N3,000) stand a chance to win the 1st Prize of A Ram, 2nd Prize, A Goat, 3rd Prize A Turkey, 4th Price A Bag of Caprice Gold flour with gifts and other consolation prizes”, he said.