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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officers have arrested two men with 10 pieces of elephant tusks weighing 89 kilogrammes valued at Sh8.9 million.<\/p>\n

The officers from Mwingi, accompanied by a KWS covert team from the headquarters in Nairobi were acting on intelligence information.<\/p>\n

The officers intercepted the vehicle the two were in at around 1 pm. KWS said one of the suspects, who was driving the vehicle, was an officer with a government agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exhibit is detained at KWS, Mwingi office and the suspects are detained at Mwingi police station pending arraignment before Mwingi law court,\u201d the police report said.<\/p>\n

On January 16, 2024, A police officer and a civilian were arrested while trying to sell 645 kilos of elephant tusks in the Eastleigh area, Nairobi.<\/p>\n

The tusks would fetch about Sh60 million in the black market.<\/p>\n

They had tried to sell the trophies to Kenya Wildlife Service officials who had posed as potential buyers.<\/p>\n

Ten days earlier, two women were last week arrested with five pieces of elephant tusks that weighed 111 kilos and were valued at Sh11 million in a village in Kwale county.<\/p>\n

They were nabbed with the trophies on January 6, 2024, at around 9 am in the Majoreni area of Lungalunga sub-county within Kwale.<\/p>\n

This happened as they sought a market for the trophies and approached undercover officials.<\/p>\n

They were charged before a Msambweni court for dealing in a wildlife trophy of an endangered species.<\/p>\n

Elephant tusks fetch a fortune in the black market as a surge in demand for ivory in the East continues to fuel the illicit trade in elephant tusks, especially from Africa.<\/p>\n

Officials say despite a ban on the international ivory trade, African elephants are still being poached in large numbers.<\/p>\n

As part of efforts to stop the menace, Kenya has started using high-tech surveillance equipment, including drones, to track poachers and keep tabs on elephants and rhinos<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Kenya<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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