On Sunday, the government of Tanzania announced that at least 60 elephants were
killed in less than two months, at the same time a resident of Dar es Salaam, Ali Juma was arrested by Tazara
Commanding Police Force after being found illegal possessing illegally 14
pieces of elephant tusks weighing 29 kilogrammes valued US
Dollar 15,950 (25,520,000/-).
In the same bag with
the ivory, the suspect had hidden a 900 gram hippopotamus tooth.
He was arrested on Friday after he boarded the Tazara train at Kisaki
Station heading for Dar es Salaam. The suspect was arrested when the
intelligence personnel were tipped off by a law abiding citizen as the
suspect boarded the Tazara train with two bags.
While police arresting the suspect for ferrying
ivory, police officers seized two bags with 19 kilogrammes of marijuana
abandoned by an unknown passenger on the train.
It is estimated that the population of elephants on the continent is
estimated to be between 420,000 to 650,000 living in three countries Botswana, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.
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