The parliamentary and parliamentary confrontations escalated because of an official in the Ministry of Agriculture who allowed the export of cats and dogs by private companies in Egypt. The media criticized the contradictory statements of the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture in this regard. He entered Mohamed Salah on the line. He expressed his disapproval of the export, A parallel battle to uncover a campaign to kill dogs by poisoning them on farms in his village, although he told the authorities to stop them.
The ministry is not responsible
The battle began with a media statement by the official spokesman of the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Hamed Abdel-Dayem, on the "public opinion" program on the channel "TEN". He said that "the ministry is represented by the Veterinary Authority. It approved the export of 2,100 cats and 1700 dogs of various breeds during the month September and October last, and the ministry did not enter into it, but only its role to give certificates that these animals fortified ».
However, the Ministry of Agriculture, represented by the Central Administration of the Veterinary Quarantine, said in a statement that "the total number of dogs and cats allowed to leave their homes during the year 2018 was 726 dogs and cats accompanied by their husbands for domestic purposes and not for commercial purposes" , And issued a statement saying it was not exporting dogs. Rights and parliamentarians considered the three statements not contradictory. The first concerns commercial exports, while the second relates to the pet animals that their owners took with them on their journey outside Egypt. The third denies the Ministry of Agriculture to export, while private companies do so.
In response to these reports, parliamentarian Ahmed Refaat submitted a request to brief the prime minister and the minister of agriculture to identify any possible manipulation that would lead to the export of these companies.
"The export of dogs and cats is against the law and the constitution, and religiously prohibited in Islam and Christianity," Rifat said.
MP Mona Mounir also submitted a request for another briefing, noting that "the Penal Code of Article 357 stipulates that a penalty of imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or a fine of not more than 200 pounds shall be imposed on anyone who intentionally kills without an animal's poison or animal poison Domesticated, or caused great damage », adding that« the approval of the Ministry of Agriculture on the export of dogs and cats to a number of countries in the world has provoked wide reactions ».
On the rights front, human rights activist Nahla Mahmoud told Emirates Al-Youm that leaks on the export of dogs, cats and donkeys, as a source of hard currency and solving the economic crisis in Egypt, are aimed at measuring the pulse and are almost periodic, This is a source of income, and the second is a private company that does not care only about profits. All things are worth buying and selling, "Mahmoud said." These parties can only see under their feet and do not realize that it includes elements such as the ecological balance, the special culture of our people, the human spirit and so on. "
In turn, Vice President of the Egyptian Union for Animal Welfare, Dr. Minni Khalil, described the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture as "insufficient". She said in an interview with the channel «MDC» on Monday «The numbers declared in the statement (agriculture) of the animals exported are true, but belong to animals owned by people, or traveled through associations, and adopted by people abroad are not exporters, and "These figures are irrelevant to what the spokesman said, and export figures for cats and dogs are in the thousands," he said, calling for "firm action and legislation."
Not to violate animal rights
For his part, outside the political arena and the parliamentary interaction, the Egyptian footballer and Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah said on his Twitter page: "Dogs and dogs will not be exported anywhere. This will not happen. It can not happen." His appeal to "Hashtag" says, "No violation of the rights of animals." He also included a picture of him with two cats in a gesture that showed his love for pets.
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