A Tanzanian national was Thursday afternoon arrested while in possession of 19 pieces of elephant tusks in Kehancha, Migori County.
Police said the tusks weighed 102 kilograms and valued at Sh10 million. Police and Kenya Wildlife Service personnel tracked him to a place he had kept the tusks before taking him to custody pending arraignment.
Police said the suspect will be charged with the offence of being in Possession of Wildlife Trophies of Endangered Species Contrary to Section 92(4) of the Wildlife Conservation Management Act 2013.
Two suspects were earlier on Wednesday arrested while trafficking six pieces of elephant tusks in Migori Town.
Police and Kenya Wildlife Service officials put the value of the 18 kilos of the tusks at Sh1.8 million.
A rider and a female pillion passenger were intercepted carrying a sack on a motorcycle and ordered to disembark.
A team of KWS officials said they searched the sack and recovered the tusks therein. It is not clear where the two had obtained the tusks from but it suggested at least two elephants had been killed to get the product.
This is the latest seizure of ivory to be made in a series in the past months.
Two Burundian nationals were Monday August 4 charged in a Mombasa court with illegal possession and trade in wildlife trophies, contrary to Kenya’s wildlife conservation laws.
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