Rank: Veteran Joined: 2/2/2012 Posts: 1,134 Location: Nairobi
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callaspade wrote:tassia wrote:callaspade wrote:....presided over the worst elephant poaching period in Kenyas history.....he has done well my foot What do you mean? Do you know what was the worst period. Hata kama ulizaliwa the other day, please do some small research and you will have the right facts. @tassia,you do the research for your self. .....focus on the poaching issue,as to when i was born is non of your business.if you are old enough you should know how to at least think. .....read below from global post. "The 247 tusks discovered on March 30 are thought to are estimated to be worth about $3.3 million, illustrating the lucrative nature of a global illegal trade that threatens to decimate Africa’s wildlife" The head of Kenya’s wildlife authority blamed the Chinese for the slaughter of more than 100 elephants and 20 rhinos in this East African country alone last year. “Ninety percent of all the people who pass through our airports and are apprehended with illegal wildlife trophies are Chinese,” said Julius Kipng’etich, director of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). ...2009 was the worst year Kenya had recorded in decades for poaching — with 249 elephants killed, up from 140 in 2008 and only 47 in 2007. “I suspect that a lot of the killing being done in Kenya is carried out by wildlife department personnel ...” ~Richard Leakey, Kenyan conservationist. And who was Director of KWS in 2008 and 2007? By the way, have you checked how leaky performed as Director of KWS .... and later in government as head of Civil Service - the so-called dream team [that included Naikuni and Oduor-Otieno?
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