Uganda, March 13 -- The blame game that Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (Maaif) appear to be playing over the spread of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is regrettably bad. This comes in the wake of Maaif's March 1 letter to KCCA in which curbs were brought in on red meat markets in the Uganda capital of Kampala.

The restrictions follow an outbreak of FMD in the capital's division of Rubaga at the backend of February. A ping-pong has since ensued with KCCA stopping short of saying that Maaif's decision to impose a quarantine was not steeped in data and science.

This, if proven to be true, is certainly an outrage that deserves to be condemned. If Maaif...