At least four people have been arrested in connection with the murder of prominent Kenyan LBGTQ rights activist Edwin Chiloba, whose lifeless body was found mutilated and with signs of strangulation in Uasin Gishu County in western Kenya on Tuesday.
The detainees have been identified as a photographer working in Nairobi, the capital, and a possible acquaintance of Chiloba. The other three people are a cousin and a friend of the suspect, and a cab driver who may have helped carry the body in a metal box to a road in Kapsaret township, where it was found. His eyes had been gouged out of his face.
The vehicle in which the activist was transported has been seized by authorities, police investigator Peter Kimulwa confirmed.
The photographer, a 24-year-old man identified as Jackton Odhiambo and considered the main suspect, will remain in police custody for the next few days while officers try to clarify the motive for the murder of the 25-year-old activist and model, reports the Kenyan newspaper ‘The Nation’.
The police commander of Kapsaret, John Odhiambo, told Citizen TV his suspicion that the murder could have been the result of a romantic crisis, without giving further details.
The NGO Amnesty International has deplored the murder and called for the investigation to be resolved as soon as possible, before recalling that Chiloba had been the target of assaults in the past.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
