{"id":920361,"date":"2022-01-28T16:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/28\/two-arrested-in-busia-for-allegedly-trafficking-sh9-1m-ivory\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T16:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T16:36:17","slug":"two-arrested-in-busia-for-allegedly-trafficking-sh9-1m-ivory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/28\/two-arrested-in-busia-for-allegedly-trafficking-sh9-1m-ivory\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested in Busia for allegedly trafficking Sh9.1m ivory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/deb8s67tu6ensj5rc61f39bda0ba5a.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Police said the 24-kg ivory was valued at Sh9.1 million.<\/strong> [File, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Police in Busia have arrested two suspects on suspicion of trafficking 26 kilograms of ivory valued at Sh9.1 million.\n<\/p>\n<p>The two, a Kenyan and a Ugandan, who were arrested at Korinda in Matayos Sub-County on Friday, January 28, are suspected to have sneaked in the ivory from Uganda. <\/p>\n<p>Police said they acted on intelligence to nab the male suspects, who were allegedly transporting the tusks on a motorbike.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had stashed the tusks in a sack, and concealed them using cassava pieces. They were trying to pass a police roadblock on the Busia-Kisumu Road, where we cornered them,\u201d said Busia County Deputy Police Commander Stephen Kimunya.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are being held in custody at the Busia Police Station as investigations continue.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001435777\/two-arrested-in-busia-for-allegedly-trafficking-sh9-1m-ivory\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police said the 24-kg ivory was valued at Sh9.1 million. [File, Standard] Police in Busia have arrested two suspects on suspicion of trafficking 26 kilograms of ivory valued at Sh9.1 million. The two, a Kenyan and a Ugandan, who were arrested at Korinda in Matayos Sub-County on Friday, January 28, are suspected to have sneaked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}