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KATIMA MULILO – The Directorate of Parks and Wildlife Management could buy a prosthetic leg and even make a one-off payment to a villager who now hobbles on crutches at Nantungu, after he sustained crippling injuries following a crocodile attack.
A recommendation for the directorate to procure an artificial limb and a lump sum payment was submitted recently by an investigator who was dispatched to Nantungu following a news article recently published in New Era.
Laurence Sitali Limbo, 37, had to have one leg amputated above the knee after he was heroically wrestled from the jaws of a giant crocodile that ambushed him, abruptly cutting short a fishing mission near a river that teems with bream at Nantungu village in Caprivi.
The near-fatal attack that left him highly traumatized, costing him his right leg and leaving him with scars inflicted by the saw-like teeth of the reptile that only let him go after villagers armed with home-made spears intervened, took place in September last year.
This week, the victim said Environment and Tourism personnel visited him and hinted the ministry could consider buying him an artificial leg and possibly give him some money.
On this development, he said he hopes the ministry will fulfill its promise as he wants to resume a normal subsistence life once he receives the prosthetic leg and some money.
A report was recently submitted by environment investigators requesting the ministry through Colgar Sikopo, the Deputy Director for Parks and Wildlife Management to consider compensation to Limbo because of the seriousness of the life-altering injuries.
When contacted for comment, Sikopo told New Era: “I received that report but I haven’t studied it. But I think what I can say is there is a policy on human wildlife management but the policy does not make any provision for compensation to injuries caused by wild animals. There is no such provision.
“It is quite unfortunate and once again I want to express our sympathy with the victim. But I am still studying the report, it’s on my table and once we have studied the report, we will provide a response to the victim through the office of the permanent secretary.”
Before a giant crocodile pounced on him after it craftily plotted his ambush in a swampy area east of Katima Mulilo almost dragging him in water, the crocodile survivor used to be a sole breadwinner who provided for many of his relatives.
But that was before one August afternoon when his communal existence came crashing down after a man-eating crocodile that was camouflaged by its environment suddenly exploded out of the knee-length water, clamping its vice-like jaws onto his left leg.
This sequence of events in the form of primitive violence involving this pre-historic beast occurred within a fraction of a second, and before he regained his senses, he was being dragged towards deeper waters by the powerful man-eating creature.
Fortunately, while the fisherman screamed because the crocodile had ripped off his left calf and its jaws sliced through the bone in his lower right leg, a group of fishermen armed with spears heard the commotion, rushed to the scene and managed to spear the crocodile and clubbed it with wooden sticks while they made a lot of noise. That way, Limbo was saved.
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A recommendation for the directorate to procure an artificial limb and a lump sum payment was submitted recently by an investigator who was dispatched to Nantungu following a news article recently published in New Era.
Laurence Sitali Limbo, 37, had to have one leg amputated above the knee after he was heroically wrestled from the jaws of a giant crocodile that ambushed him, abruptly cutting short a fishing mission near a river that teems with bream at Nantungu village in Caprivi.
The near-fatal attack that left him highly traumatized, costing him his right leg and leaving him with scars inflicted by the saw-like teeth of the reptile that only let him go after villagers armed with home-made spears intervened, took place in September last year.
This week, the victim said Environment and Tourism personnel visited him and hinted the ministry could consider buying him an artificial leg and possibly give him some money.
On this development, he said he hopes the ministry will fulfill its promise as he wants to resume a normal subsistence life once he receives the prosthetic leg and some money.
A report was recently submitted by environment investigators requesting the ministry through Colgar Sikopo, the Deputy Director for Parks and Wildlife Management to consider compensation to Limbo because of the seriousness of the life-altering injuries.
When contacted for comment, Sikopo told New Era: “I received that report but I haven’t studied it. But I think what I can say is there is a policy on human wildlife management but the policy does not make any provision for compensation to injuries caused by wild animals. There is no such provision.
“It is quite unfortunate and once again I want to express our sympathy with the victim. But I am still studying the report, it’s on my table and once we have studied the report, we will provide a response to the victim through the office of the permanent secretary.”
Before a giant crocodile pounced on him after it craftily plotted his ambush in a swampy area east of Katima Mulilo almost dragging him in water, the crocodile survivor used to be a sole breadwinner who provided for many of his relatives.
But that was before one August afternoon when his communal existence came crashing down after a man-eating crocodile that was camouflaged by its environment suddenly exploded out of the knee-length water, clamping its vice-like jaws onto his left leg.
This sequence of events in the form of primitive violence involving this pre-historic beast occurred within a fraction of a second, and before he regained his senses, he was being dragged towards deeper waters by the powerful man-eating creature.
Fortunately, while the fisherman screamed because the crocodile had ripped off his left calf and its jaws sliced through the bone in his lower right leg, a group of fishermen armed with spears heard the commotion, rushed to the scene and managed to spear the crocodile and clubbed it with wooden sticks while they made a lot of noise. That way, Limbo was saved.
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