The Ministry of Agricultural Animal Industry and Fisheries has lifted with immediate effect the restrictions that were imposed on Kigando, Kayebe, Kasambya, Kitenga, and Butoloogo, Mubende District due to Foot and mouth disease.
According to the letter signed by the commissioner of Animal Health, Dr Anna Rose Ademun dated August 29, 2024, the Chief Administrative Officer Mubende, Mr. Peter N Ruhweeza, the reference was made on the subject matter.
Quarantine restrictions were imposed following an outbreak of Foot and mouth Disease (FMD) in Kigando, Kayebe, Kasambya, Kitenga, and Butoloogo, Mubende District, prohibiting the movement of cattle, goats, and sheep and their products from, to, through, and within the affected areas as prescribed by the Animal Diseases Act, Cap 38.
The animal movement restrictions that have been in force since then coupled with increased community awareness about FMD, the strategic ring vaccinations carried out in the affected areas and the status report on the FMD outbreak in Mubende district have confirmed that the disease has been brought under control.
“The purpose of this communication, therefore, is to inform you that the quarantine has been lifted with immediate effect,” Notice partly reads.
It is recalled that cattle farmers and traders who were stranded after the closer of their market in Buwaata, Kigando sub-county in Kasambya last year have recently come out and complained that they want to be considered and re-work as the situation is too difficult for them.
They said animal theft has been rampant in the area and animals are less expensive.
Kosiya Ntaama, the head of livestock farmers in Kigando sub-county, said they wrote a letter to the head of veterinary medicine in Mubende district informing him that rabies has disappeared in the area and now this is their win.
