An Administration Police Officer was arrested on Tuesday for being in possession of five pieces of ivory worth sh1 million in Nairobi West area.
Kenya Wildlife Services officers arrested the AP officer and his two other accomplices and locked them up at Langata Police Station.
The five pieces of ivory weighed 25kgs and its street value would fetch more than one million shillings.
Police Intel indicates the suspect AP officer is attached to Baram Bate AP post in Garbatula, Isiolo County.
KWS spokesperson Ngugi Gachaga said the three had already identified a buyer and were in the process of selling the tusks when police ambushed them.
“They are under interrogation and will be arraigned in Kibera Law Court on Wednesday [today] to take a plea,” he said according to Nairobi News.
Though police are yet to establish the source of the ivory, it emerged three elephants were killed.
With the anti-poaching law in place, government has made tremendous progress in saving elephants that previously, were an easy target by poachers.
By Pharis Kinyua. He’s an online Journalist and an author for Jamhuri News