Independent member of the Nikšić Municipal Assembly (SO), Tatjana Knežević Perišić, points out in a press release that "while the citizens of Nikšić are suffocating from the stench of dead animals, freshly sprayed Mislovi Dol, from garbage from Željezara, a real ecological disaster is on the horizon, considering that there will be a new euthanasia of cattle infected with Q fever, until then the management of the municipality does not accept any responsibility for the incredible scenes that we saw in the previous days, which, unfortunately, we will continue to see".
As he points out, many questions, such as how many more cattle are infected and how many are estimated to be, whether the citizens, who had contact with the animals, are in danger, whether the land and farms where the animals lived and died are contaminated, that whether milk from infected cows was delivered to stores, what about domestic cheese, who will compensate the farmers for the damage, what will happen with the purchase of milk from healthy cows, remained unanswered.
"The president of the deplorable municipality of Nikšić, Marko Kovačević, blames the 'old workers of the communal services and practices from the past', whom he will investigate and 'see', but he does not see the mess that is bursting before the eyes of all of us and his sincere disgust at that cruel scene of the unloaded remains of animals, which they were not able to bury properly, but, as the residents of Bogetić accused them, under the cover of darkness, they unloaded them and partially covered them with earth, because their machine broke down, so they will finish it tomorrow As the veterinary inspector Slavica Sužum informs us, they have to be careful not to be attacked by any kind of bee, so the lady ordered them to go around the place every other day, which, she claims, she will sprinkle with earth just in case the bee comes. "Does this scenario work, but here," asks Tatjana Knežević Perišić.
As he points out, neither the Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Joković nor the Director of the Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Affairs Vladimir Đaković, in principle, "have no idea what happens to infected livestock".
"Because if they had, Đaković would not have learned from the media and messages, as I said, that the cattle were not properly buried, even though Sužum informed him that they had been, but he would have gone to the scene and announced what he found. Vladimir Joković would not have hidden it until today, that the virus appeared on August 17, on eight farms, and that the construction of an animal incinerator will soon begin in Nikšić, in a populated place, three kilometers from the city center, because it will not go smoothly. And certainly veterinarian Bojan Adžić would not assert that 'the virus is transmitted by handling an infected animal,'" reads the statement of the independent councilor in SO Nikšić.
As he concludes, the local and state government is "totally incapable of managing any crisis, even this one", because "total ignorance, arrogance, endangering the health of people and animals, an infection that can escalate to unimaginable proportions" reigns.
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