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Police officers and the public view tusks at Makupa Police Station in Mombasa. The tusks were seized by AP officers in Tudor during a night raid last week. [PHOTO: KELVIN KARANI/STANDARD
Mombasa, Kenya: Mystery now surrounds the fate of the Administration Police officers who seized a huge consignment of 314 pieces of ivory in Mombasa.
Sources told The Standard that the officers had allegedly been reprimanded by their seniors after they seized the ivory whose origin and destination are unknown.
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