A huge python has caused a rouse in Lubigi swamp on Masaka road when residents who have been worshipping it resisted a Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) team to relocate it. After saving the reptile ,Vernice Mirembe of UWA has said that the resident who have been pitching a camp at the edge of the Swamp tossed arms at UWA’s team.
Edward Kabagyo of the Uganda Wildlife Education centre at Entebbe, where the reptile was relocated, said they had rescued three pythons from the same area in the last four months.

She also said that some of them have been paying honor to a spirit called Mayanja that is believed to rejuvenate in pythons. They have been bringing eggs, berries, coffee beer, barkcloth and fetishes as sacrifice.

Mirembe has also said that the reptile had been exposed to stress because of the noisy crowd and the food they had brought would have poisoned it.
She also commented that the python was not a spirit but one of the many reptiles living in the swamp and added that their habitat was shrinking due to encroachment, forcing them to the edges of the wetland.

Curious crowd thronged the swamp from Natete, Kyengera and Bulenga and disrupted traffic as they searched for the snake that had retreated into the swamp.

Some onlookers claimed the python was a blessing from a spirit in the Lubigi swamp that runs across Mityana ,Wakiso and Luweero districts.

Residents said the python was seen on Sunday but disappeared when a crowd gathered. It reappeared the following day to bask in the sun.

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