{"id":6686,"date":"2019-11-20T09:27:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T06:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6686"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"viral-video-of-elephant-slashing-causes-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/20\/viral-video-of-elephant-slashing-causes-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Video Of Elephant Slashing Causes Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kenya\nWildlife Service (KWS) was on Tuesday thrown into panic after a video clip\nshowing residents of Ruiri in Meru County slashing an elephant went viral on\nsocial media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video\nshows people with pangas slashing the elephant ostensibly for a slice of meat\nas the animal struggles to stand. It is not clear when the incident happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But KWS\nacting head of corporate Ngugi Gecaga confirmed that the incident took place\nearly 2018 although he did not give the exact date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said\nwhen the incident was reported and KWS officers rushed to the scene and found\nthe animal in distress having been slashed with pangas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ARREST<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe\nanimal had been injured so it could not walk and the residents took advantage\nof its immobility and descended on it,\u201d Mr Gecaga told&nbsp;<em>Nation<\/em>&nbsp;in a\ntelephone interview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen our officers arrived there,\nthe residents took off and we did not arrest anyone. Since the animal was\nseriously injured we were forced to put it down and remove the tusks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt the moment we don\u2019t know the motive\nbehind releasing of the video after nearly two years and we are trying to\nestablish its origin and identify the individuals so that we can make arrests,\u201d\nMr Gecaga added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CONDEMNATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Justus Nyamu, executive director\nof Elephant Centre and honorary warden Mount Kenya region took to social media\nto condemn the act, terming it \u201cbarbaric\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe video is disheartening and it\nis unfortunate that Kenyans can kill an animal like that. It is barbaric,\nheinous act and we condemn it,\u201d said Mr Nyamu in a video posted on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Nyamu, who is also the founder of\nTusk Belongs to the Elephant movement, called on the Directorate of Criminal\nInvestigations (DCI) to investigate the incident and bring those who were\ninvolved to book. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Viral-video-of-elephant-slashing-causes-KWS-panic\/1056-5355308-udmq4c\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) was on Tuesday thrown into panic after a video clip showing residents of Ruiri in Meru County slashing an elephant went viral&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}