Chama cha Mwananchi party leader koigi wa Wamwere has faulted the burning of recovered elephant tusks by President Uhuru Kenyatta saying it is no solution to poaching in the country.
"Burning recovered elephant tusks is... no solution to elephant poaching," he wrote on his Facebook page.
Koigi went ahead to give an analogy of a lost phone to compare it with recovered tasks.
"When you recover your stolen phone or some other property, you don't protect your phones from future theft by burning them,"he added.
The former Subukia MP further advised that the tusks should be preserved for posterity.
"The tusks to be burnt should be preserved for posterity. The fight is not against tusks but against poachers. Burning them is wrong advise. After all, we have been burning tusks for more than 25 years and it has not stopped poaching," he continued.
Uhuru is expected to burn around 105 tonnes of elephant tusks and ivory on Saturday at the Nairobi National Park, an exercise to be witnessed by President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Gabon's Ali Omar Bongo.