A security officer attached to President William Ruto and bodyguard attached to Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi are among three police officers arrested in Kitengela in possession of Elephant tusks.
The security officer is said to be attached to the Presidential Escort Unit (PEU) which guards President William Ruto and his family while the third officer is attached to Milimani Law Courts.
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The report comes after the three officers were arrested alongside a civilian on Saturday while carrying five elephant tusks weighing 29 kilograms worth Ksh 2.9 million.
Confirming the incident, Kitengela police boss Patrick Manyasi said that the suspects had two pistols and 30 bullets at the time of arrest. Reports indicate that they were trailed from Eldoret to Nairobi and later to Kitengela before they were arrested.
At the time of arrest, the suspects are said to have drawn their pistols at a Kenya Wildlife Services roadblock in Kitengela before quick reactions by the KWS officers subdued them and arrested them.
The four were taken to Kitengela Police Station before being transferred to KSW holding in Lang’ata, Nairobi where they are waiting to be arraigned in court over Possession of Wildlife Trophies of Endangered Species.
This is Contrary to Section 92(4) of the Wildlife Conservation Management Act 2013 and according to the inspection, the seizure on the tusks showed some elephants had been killed with a possibility of being a common practice among the officers.
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However, arraignment of the officers will take time over the go slow of the Judiciary as the judges mourn one of their own who was shot dead at Makadara Law Courts while on duty.