{UAH} Mr. Otafire. Pliz forgive couple. They are trying to survive. Read the poverty-Couple arrested selling buffalo meat

Mr. Otafire. Pliz forgive this couple. They are trying to survive. Read the poverty in the Foto! I also feel sad when I see the baby like this! Look at the sefuliyas. The womans eyes, the mans nakeddness. Poverty only.

Dear God please help such people a. Amiina.

Couple arrested selling buffalo meat

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Joseph Mukungu and wife Immaculate Awekumungu aboard a Uganda Wildlife Authority patrol vehicle at the Murchison Falls National Park in Buliisa District. Photo by Farahani Mukisa 

By FARAHANI MUKISA

Posted  Friday, March 27  2015 at  02:00

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KAMPALA. Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers at Murchison Falls National Park have arrested a couple found selling buffalo meat to the community.
Joseph Mukungu 32, and Immaculate Awekumungu 29, residents of Kisenyi village in Buliisa District, were arrested on Tuesday after a tip off that they had killed a buffalo and were selling its meat on the black market.
The couple was arrested from their home where they were selling the bush meat at between Shs500 and Shs1,000 a kilogramme.
UWA officials say the couple will be charged in court with illegal possession of wild animal meat.
Mr Julius Obwona, the law enforcement officer for the Murchison Falls National Park, told Daily Monitor that every month, his team arrests 20 to 30 people over poaching animals in the game park.
Mr Mukungu, in an interview with Daily Monitor, admitted that he had killed the buffalo together with four of his friends.

UWA officials are still tracking down the other four.
Mr Obwona said elephants are the most endangered wildlife species, which are killed for their ivory and that antelopes were the most endangered species killed for game meat.

Poaching on the decline
According to the Uganda Wildlife Authority, poaching in both game parks and game reserves had decreased tremendously by the year 2012, leading to an increase in the population of endangered animals.
UWA indicates that the number of buffaloes increased from 2,477 to 9,192 and from 5,000 to 14,858, in both Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth national parks and protected areas from 1995 to 2010 and 1988 to 2010 respectively.

fmukisa@ug.nationmedia.com

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