WILDLEX

Accused Juma Grayson, Geofrey Semkoko and Salim Kigoda were arrested and charged for being found in unlawful possession of Government trophies contrary to the provision of the law. They were all charged at the Pangani District Court for the same offence.

The accused were jointly found in possession of buffalo meat and fourteen (14) ammunitions without a permit. During their charges they both pleaded not guilty.

On or about 12th February, 2010 at Ngorongoro Conservation area within Ngorongoro district in Arusha region, the accused persons were found in unlawful possession of government trophy to wit, one buffalo which was carried in a vehicle owned by the Government of Tanzania.

On 2nd June 2001 in Serera Controlled area, Mto wa Mbu , Monduli District in Arusha region, the accused persons alleged killed three buffaloes using poisoned spears whilst not possessing a hunting permit from the Director of Wildlife. The accused persons denied to be in possession of the said buffalo meat.

This dispute concerns the ownership of a valuable herd of Cape Buffalo, which escaped from the Thomas Baines Nature Reserve in the Eastern Cape, a provincial nature reserve managed in the public interest by the appellant, the Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism Agency ("the Agency").

The accused were charged with contravening Regulation 5 (1) of the Fauna Conservation (Batawana Tribal Territory) (Hunting) Regulations, 1967, contained in Statutory Instrument No. 65 of 1967. They killed two buffalo without being in possession of a permit allowing them to do so.

This was an appeal against the decision of the Chief Magistrate that convicted and sentenced the appellants of a series of offences arising out of killing wild animals. The appellants also sought to vary the forfeiture order against the rifles and vehicle that were found to have been used in the commission of the offences.

Accused was convicted of unlawfully hunting without a licence contrary to section 15 (1) of Cap. 38:01 Fauna Conservation. His defence was that he was under the impression that he was entitled to hunt and kill on the licences of other members of the party.

On the 1st October 2014, elements of the conservation service of the divisional delegation of Ntem, South Region received reliable information about the illicit trafficking of wildlife products in the town. Following this information and together with the gendarmerie, they proceeded to arrest the accused ELLA Minko Pierre at Hotel Sispens.

On January 19, 2013, Bokandja Blanchard, water and forest agent, was walking in the central market in Ouesso. He caught Alongayina Jacqueline red handed trading in elephant and buffalo meat before alerting the gendarmerie. Alongayina Jacqueline later declared that the products from Pale Jeanne.