{"id":28840,"date":"2016-09-23T01:54:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T01:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-police-arrest-man-with-57kg-ivory-tusks-in\/"},"modified":"2016-09-23T01:54:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T01:54:31","slug":"kenya-police-arrest-man-with-57kg-ivory-tusks-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-police-arrest-man-with-57kg-ivory-tusks-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Police arrest man with 57kg ivory tusks in Kitui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Police officers in Mutomo, Kitui County, on Thursday arrested a suspected ivory trader with seven pieces of tusks with a Sh3.5 million street value.}<\/p>\n<p>John Muli Kavuva was caught in a police dragnet after undercover detectives, posing as interested buyers, approached him and offered to purchase the 57-kilogramme illegal cargo at Ilamba trading centre.<\/p>\n<p>Area police boss Kingsford Nyaga told the Nation that the officers were acting on a tip-off from the public.<\/p>\n<p>He said the suspect was being held at Mutomo police cells pending arraignment in court once police conclude investigations into the man\u2019s involvement in the illegal trade.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nyaga also said the recovered tusks were taken to ivory experts to ascertain their authenticity.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15199 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ivory_pix-2.jpg\" alt=\"KWS rangers guard intercepted ivory at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the past. Police officers in Mutomo, Kitui County, on Thursday arrested a suspected ivory trader with seven pieces of tusks with a Sh3.5 million street value.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Police officers in Mutomo, Kitui County, on Thursday arrested a suspected ivory trader with seven pieces of tusks with a Sh3.5 million street value.} John Muli Kavuva was caught in a police dragnet after undercover detectives, posing as interested buyers, approached him and offered to purchase the 57-kilogramme illegal cargo at Ilamba trading centre. Area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28840"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28840"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}