According to Amuru Deputy RDC Geoffrey Oceng, a security meeting he held with local leaders and the 4th division commander Brigadier Bonny Bamwiseki, held on Sunday gave a seven-day ultimatum to the cattle owners to vacate the area or risk losing their animals.
Deputy Prime Minister General Moses Ali, the National Forestry Authority (NFA), Adjumani district leaders have been alarmed by the United Nations' move to remove over three square miles (2000 acres) of natural forest and create a commercial farm for refugees in northern Uganda.
The Madi Opei Sub County LC III Chairperson, Charles Okwera Obong, says the disease that was first observed in September 2020 this year has so far claimed over 70 cattle in Kal, Lawiye Oduny and Okol parishes.
