Police have launched investigations into the brutal murder of model and LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba.
Chiloba was founded murdered and his body stashed in a metallic box along the Kipenyo – Kaptinga road, in Kapsaret, Uasin Gishu County.
Initial reports indicate that a numberless vehicle was seen dropping the metal box in the area by a Bodaboda rider who happened to be driving by the area when it happened.
The matter was reported to police officers who were manning a nearby roadblock. They abandoned their post and rushed to the scene.
Upon opening the box, a decomposing body of a man dressed in a woman’s clothes was found inside shocking a crowd that had already milled around the scene.
It was later established that the deceased was Eldoret-based fashion designer Edwin Chiloba.
The body has taken to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital awaiting post-mortem to establish the cause of death as investigations kick off.