Africa-Press – Lesotho. The Minister of Home Affairs, His Excellency Motlalentoa Letsosa, had a meeting with the chiefs in Leribe district, to warn them and encourage them to advise the public to mark their livestock.
Speaking at the event, Letsosa said that pet owners, especially relatives, are in the habit of marking their animals with the same mark and that this is causing a lot of confusion when they are going to be burned with metal.
He suggested that if the father in the family chose to leave the animal to his son, the son should also choose a mark different from that of the animals.
“If you give him an animal that has already been marked, he will take it with his bees even though it will be registered as his own and the lambs of that animal will be marked with his mark,” he said.
He further added that there were thieves who encouraged the public not to mark their animals as thin, emaciated, epileptic, or muscular. He said the purpose of the thieves was that if they stole them to sell in South Africa, they would be able to burn them with their own metal.
Letsosa also challenges livestock owners to mark their animals with signs that will be easier and easier to detect when an animal has been stolen than that the owner of the animal would be described by signs or colors that people, especially those living on the plains , some do not know.
He gave the example that the simplest way to mark their animals according to their respective districts would be to mark C and then the numbers and in this way the animal would be able to easily be identified.
He advised the Chiefs to speak to their people to mark their herds in order to protect them against thieves as marked animals, thieves could not sell them in the ‘big market’.
The King of Ha Mokokoana Mr Mokokoana Jonathan said it had come to his notice that in the country no one has the right to own these animal markers without a branch.
He further added that it is noteworthy that there are Basotho who have such iron bars in the villages and who may take the opportunity to pick up animals that their owners do not mark and mark for themselves.
“It ‘s reasonable to take these metals from the Free State and give them away so that their goods can now be brought to Lesotho to cause corruption,” he said. Jonathan called on the department to pay attention to this issue and to prevent it.
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