By Adama Makasuba
Animal welfare advocate association established to creating awareness and improving animal welfare is calling for protection of animals’ welfare in the coming constitution.
The group is also calling for absolute freedom of all animals in the country.
In an exclusive interview with Lamin Ceesay in Jareng in Niamina, Lamin Ceesay urged constitutional review commission to consider their voice “because we are speaking for the voiceless beings.”
“If you look at animal welfare in this country…our animals are suffering a lot. So, we the animal welfare advocate association deem it necessary to ensuring that animals are well protection, and we want them to ensure that protection is part and parcel in this new constitution,” Mr Ceesay added.
He urged drafters of the constitution to include laws that would protect animals from ‘unnecessary sufferings.’
“We are advocating for fundamental rights freedom like freedom from hunger and taste and freedom from discomfort and freedom from pain, injury and disease and distress,” he said.
The animal activist expressed random roaming of animals in the streets of the country after the rainy season, saying “if you look at this country a lot of animals are roaming in the streets after the rainy season some of the farmers will neither shelter nor feed their animals.”
He links this practice to animals developing diseases, but added ‘if there is a provision about animals welfare in this constitution, I am pretty hopeful that the animals welfare will not be compromised.”