Bayelsa Residents Butcher Giant Whale Washed Ashore

The people of the Okpoama community in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have butchered a giant whale that was washed ashore.

Naija News understands that the whale measuring about 15 meters long and five meters wide at a height of about three meters, was dead when residents saw it on the beach on Wednesday morning.

It is believed that the fish might have come in with the high tide on Tuesday night and was left on the shore as the sea water receded at low tide.

A community source, Tarinyo Akono, told Punch on Wednesday that “they are butchering the whale,” saying the people were using machetes, hacksaws, and axes to cut the animal to pieces.

Akono, a former state Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Bayelsa State Council, who is an indigene of the area, said the whale was dead after being out of water throughout the night.

The youth president of Okpoama, Seiyefa Felix Ben-Basuo also confirmed that people were butchering the animal at the seaside.

Below are pictures from the incident,

Five years ago, in August 2019, a giant whale was stranded in the same seaside community and was butchered by the residents for food.