Jackton Odhiambo has been detained and named as the primary suspect in the murder of LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba by Kenyan police.
Odhiambo, who was dating the LGBTQ activist, admitted to k*lling him and dumping his body by the side of the road in response to claims that he had cheated on him.
As part of the investigation into the violent killing of Edwin Kiprotich Kiptoo alias Chiloba, three further suspects were also detained. As a result, there are now four people in custody, according to the police.
The three were detained for helping to transport a metal box that was used to dispose of Chiloba’s remains.
Two of the three are young men, both under the age of 18, according to the authorities.
Detectives have also apprehended a car that was used to dispose of the body on the road, according to police spokeswoman Resla Onyango. She stated that one of the ideas they are now investigating is the love triangle.
Accusations that the model had cheated on the main suspect in the death of fashionista Jackton Odhiambo, 24, led to his confession of killing him.
Police claim that Jackton used his two buddies to carry out the crime. The accused claimed that he killed Chiloba in retaliation for betraying him.
As the primary suspect in the murder, Jackton, who had shared a residence with the deceased in Eldoret for a year, was detained on Friday, January 6. As husband and wife, they shared a home.
Alex Nyamweya, Chiloba’s caretaker, claimed that on January 4, Jackton called him on Chiloba’s phone to let him know he was leaving the home they shared.
According to the police, Jackton left the house right away.
According to the police, Jackton said to curious neighbors who had noticed a foul stench coming from the home where Chiloba and two other people were staying that a dead rat had died there and that he was attempting to remove it.
When the neighbors inquired about the source of the smell coming from their home, “he claimed it was a dead rat,” Uasin Gishu county DCI chief Peter Kimulwo said.
The body was discarded close to Kipkaren in Halingham.
A day ago, Jackton was seen by the neighbors carrying a metal box. According to early investigations, the corpse looked to have been strangled and had one eye gouged out.
Kimulwo claimed that on January 3, 2023, a chief reported to police that a metal box had been left by the side of the road in the Kipkaren area.
Residents discovered an adult’s dead corpse inside the metal box, wrapped in a woman’s clothes.
On New Year’s Eve, according to Kimulwo, Chiloba and his buddies went to the Tamasha club and returned home at around three in the morning.
When they came, neighbors could hear screams and commotion that quickly died down. On January 3, neighbors observed two persons carrying a metal box into a vehicle before it drove off.
“We think the noise the neighbors heard earlier was when the deceased was killed,” Kimulwo stated.
He claimed that the deceased and the suspect shared a home together. For the celebration of the new year, he had traveled from Nairobi.
At the Moi Referral Hospital mortuary in Eldoret, his body was positively identified by the family.
His sister Melvin described her last moments with Chiloba, whom she had met at Tamasha Place in Eldoret to celebrate the new year.
Chiloba arrived at Tamasha around 10 p.m., according to Melvin, who works there, with an unfamiliar buddy.
She told journalists, “After the fireworks for the new year, I met him and he bid me farewell stating he would miss me.
