Forwarded By Leo Odera Omolo

— On Mon, 12/8/08, Paul Udoto wrote:

From: Paul Udoto
Subject: Police, KWS and KFS to search lorry with suspected East African sandalwood
Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 7:07 AM

A joint team of the Police, Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Forest Service officers will tomorrow morning (Tuesday, December 9, 2008) conduct a thorough search on a trailer suspected to have 20-30 tonnes of illegal East African sandalwood at the KWS Kajiado station at 8.30 am.

The law enforcement agencies will also be searching for other illegal government trophies.

The Tanzanian-registered trailer was intercepted at Namanga boarder on November 26, 2008 with the suspected contraband. It was heading to Tanzania from Kenya .

The driver, clearing agent and owner were arrested and later arraigned in a Kajiado court which ordered tomorrow’s search.

Please get your crews to cover the event.

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Paul Udoto

Corporate Communications Manager
Kenya Wildlife Service
P.O. 40241 – 00100 Nairobi Kenya
Tel: +254-20-600800 ext 2088 or 2122 or 2229
Cellphone: +254-721-453981 or 0733 391126
CDMA: 020 243 3000
Website: www.kws.go.ke

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Our Wildlife, Our Heritage

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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 00:58:10 -0800 [12/09/2008 02:58:10 AM CST]
From: Leo Odera Omolo
Subject: Fw: Police, KWS and KFS to search lorry with suspected East African sandalwood