UPDATED 18:46 PM EST, January 16, 2013
The ivory was in a container destined for Indonesia and was discovered late Tuesday, said Gitau Gitau, the Kenya Revenue Authority officer in charge of the port. Gitau said the tusks were from Tanzania. Documents said the container was carrying slabs of decorative stones,
The seizure comes about a week after 12 elephants were killed in a Kenyan park and their tusks chopped off.
