NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 9 — The key suspect in the murder of LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba will be arraigned before an Eldoret court on Monday as police officers continue investigations into the killing.
Jacktone Odhiambo is accused of killing Chiloba who is also a fashion model.
Uasin Gishu Director of Criminal Investigations Peter Kimulwo said Odhiambo will be arraigned alongside three other suspects said to be his accomplices.
Police have also seized a car that is suspected to have been used in carrying Chiloba’s body which was later dumped by the roadside.
A team of forensic experts from Nairobi was expected to travel to Eldoret to assist in the investigations.
Chiloba was on Friday found murdered and his body stuffed in a metal box that was dumped at Kipkaren on the outskirts of Eldoret Town, Uasin Gishu County.
Odhiambo confessed to killing the model over allegations that he cheated on him.
Police revealed that he executed the murder with the help of his two friends.
The suspect confessed to have murdered Chiloba as revenge for betraying him.
Odhiambo who had been living with the deceased for one year in Eldoret was arrested on Friday as the main suspect in the murder.
The two lived together as husband and wife.
Chiloba’s caretaker Alex Nyamweya said that Odhiambo called him using Chiloba’s phone on January informing him that he was vacating the house they lived in.
Police officers indicated that the suspect vacated the house with immediate effect.
Odhiambo is a Nairobi based freelance photographer and had joined the deceased for New Year celebrations.
Police disclosed Odhiambo told curious neighbors who had smelt a bad smell from a house Chiloba stayed with him and two others that it was a dead rat that had died therein, and he was making efforts to remove it.
“He told the neighbors it was a dead rat that was smelling when they sought to know what was smelling from the house they lived,” Uasin Gishu county DCI boss Peter Kimulwo said.
The neighbors had seen him with the metal box a day earlier.
Kimulwo said preliminary findings show the deceased appeared to have been strangled and one eye was gouged out.
