The mean microbial count revealed decreasing trend in total coliform,total aerobic plate and fungal in the biofertilizer digestate as against their higher values in the feedstock (Table 2).This agrees with (Shu-Hsien et al., 2007) that microbial population has a tendency to decrease within the first seven days of anaerobic digestion due to acidic environment and then remains steady during the biofertilizer preparation. Though anaerobic digestate can be used to efficiently improve the fertility of soil and boost crop production, its safety still remains a source of concern to end users due to pathogens (Alfa et al., 2014).In this study,anaerobic digestion was found to reduce the microbial load in the digestate but the residual total coliform content of 2.10x108CFU/100ml is however above tolerable limits for use as direct fertilizer on farmlands(Tsuneo,2010;Yun et al.,2000).