The Coalition For Cruelty Free Africa (CFCFA) is issuing an urgent call for action for immediate intervention following a BBC Africa Eye investigation. This investigation revealed horrific animal abuse and fraudulent donation scam operations in Uganda, Africa, with links to the UK.
The evidence emerging from this disturbing investigation exposes the barbaric, deliberate torture, cruelty, exploitation, and abuse of innocent dogs, cats, and other animals for financial scams. This not only exposes the horrific abuse of animals in Africa, but the lack of animal protection and the lack of intervention from police and governmental agencies. It highlights an apparent moral and legal failure to protect innocent animals from clear violations of Uganda’s own animal protection and criminal laws.
What is equally alarming is the apparent lack of swift and visible action to stop this suffering. CFCFA still awaits swift action from the authorities to rescue the remaining suffering dogs and cats currently being imprisoned by the abusers. Animals, in particular dogs and cats, continue to endure deliberate mutilation, torture, pain, and neglect by those animal-abusing, scamming criminals responsible, who are literally operating without consequence so far. These scammers and their barbarity need to be urgently stopped.
We demand that the Authorities and the Government of Uganda:
- Undertake emergency rescue and protection of the dogs, cats, and animals that are at risk and in danger.
- Acknowledge that this investigation has exposed an urgent need for animal rescue.
- Stop turning a blind eye; rescue and secure the safety of dogs, cats, and other animals involved, with further action taken for the prevention of animal abuse.
- Take immediate action for the arrest and prosecution of all the animal abuser criminals involved and shut down all animal abuse facilities and locations involved.
- Call for immediate investigations and inspections of all other suspected animal abuse scam facilities in Uganda and across Africa.
- Implement full enforcement of animal protection and fraud laws.
- Prosecute all animal abusers and scammers.
We are urging the African Union & International Community to:
- Intervene and take decisive action to protect animals from abusers, scammers, and traffickers, especially on the World Wide Web.
- Support law enforcement actions to prevent, identify, and stop animal abuse operations across the World Wide Web.
- Work toward the prevention of cross-border digital exploitation of animal suffering.
- Ensure an emergency animal protection response.
- Immediately deploy independent veterinary and genuine animal rescue teams.
- Establish secure rehabilitation animal sanctuaries free from exploitation.
- Intervention on Social Media Platforms:
- Immediate removal of exploitative fundraising accounts.
- The government must work with social media platforms to shut down animal abuse accounts, scammers, and fraudulent fundraisers.
This widespread barbaric abuse of vulnerable dogs, cats, and animals to deceive compassionate people around the world—particularly using social media platforms—is both abhorrent animal abuse and fraud of public money and trust. It makes a mockery of the African Union, global authorities, crime agencies, police, courts, and the justice and legal systems in Uganda and Africa. This not only undermines trust and damages legitimate global animal rescue efforts, but allows suffering to continue unchecked.
The findings in this particular investigation highlight that dogs, cats, and other animals are being systematically abused, mutilated, tortured, and exploited to generate distressing animal suffering scam content. This content is created by the abusers to trick and manipulate compassionate donors into making donations worldwide.
This is not an isolated case. There are currently multiple animal abuse scam operations and facilities across Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, Africa, China, South East Asia, Asia, the USA, the UK, and Europe committing the same barbarity and scams. Dogs, cats, and other animals remain trapped in this horrific cycle of abuse and are in urgent need of rescue and rehabilitation.
The BBC Africa investigation identified locations where animals are currently being tortured, starved, and abused for donation deception targeting international donors. This is one of many animal abuse scam operations in Uganda with links to other African and global countries, including the UK and the USA. Since this investigation was exposed, there has currently been no serious immediate intervention from the authorities in Uganda. Animals continue to suffer while waiting to be rescued, while animal-abusing scammers continue their fraudulent fundraising.
