Sinazongwe District Council has embarked on the campaign of shooting stray pigs and other domestic animals in Maamba Township.
Sinazongwe District Council Environment Officer Muswa Akapelwa told ZANIS in Maamba that the high number of pigs mushrooming in the township was posing a danger to the innocent people who may be infected once there was an outbreak of Cholera.
Mr. Akapelwa said that despite allocating an area for people to be keeping their domestic animals they have failed to take them.
He said the public should be aware that pigs may also spread and cause epilepsy in human beings.
Mr. Akapelwa noted that even educated people in Maamba were keeping pigs in the township despite several meetings that the local authority has conducted to stop the trend.
“We fail to understand the situation in Maamba even educated people are keeping pigs in their own houses, Maamba Coal Mine managers should enlighten their workers,†Mr, Akapelwa said.
Maamba Ward Councilor Peter Siavuulwe said some of the named promninate people keeping animals in the township were making his work difficult to educate people because they were making references to them.
Mr. Siavuulwe urged the council to enforce the law to ensure that people were deterred from keeping domestic animals in their homes.
He said the shooting campaign should continue for it was better for pigs to die than to lose human beings.
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