Many don’t know that the Cameron pepper you buy is Ose (pepper) Nsukka. According to story posted by Roy Ekwueme, a vibrant Nsukka young visionary man. He narrated that Late Professor Joseph Uzor Ogbonna of Agric Dept. UNN, bred species of pepper and named it “Ose Nsukka”. He as well bred the tomato we know as “Derica”.Professor Joseph won a UNESCO prize for these in 1985, and was asked by the University to plant an Odor tree at the entrance of the school.According to the story, some Cameroonian students in the 1980’s in UNN took the seeds home and grew it, but because the pepper didn’t grow well outside Nsukka, they resorted to grinding it. This is the reason there is no fresh Cameroon pepper but only dried one.The research discovered that since the Ose Nsukka is highly perishable, the preservation industry had to come in and this made them test different methods and what worked was the Salting- Blanding-Sun drying which worked perfectly since it retained its flavour and yellowish traits.Ose Nsukka is becoming very popular and farmers are making a lot of
money from it.