Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officers have arrested two men with 10 pieces of elephant tusks weighing 89 kilogrammes valued at Sh8.9 million. The officers from Mwingi, accompanied by a KWS covert team from the headquarters in Nairobi were acting on intelligence information. 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. "The exhibit is detained at KWS, Mwingi office and the suspects are detained at Mwingi police station pending arraignment before Mwingi law court," the police report said. 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. The tusks would fetch about Sh60 million in the black market. They had tried to sell the trophies to Kenya Wildlife Service officials who had posed as potential buyers.