Kenyan LGBT activist’s body found in metal box
NAIROBI, Kenya —𒁃 Police in Kenya are inveꦰstigating the death of an LGBT activist whose body was found stuffed in a metal box.
The body of Edwin Chiloba was found on Wednesd𓂃ay on a road in Uasin Gishu County, in the west of the country.
Police say a motorcycle taxi operator𝄹 reported seeing the box be꧅ing dumped by a vehicle with no license plates.
The rider reported the incident to police officers who were man🌠ning a nearby roadblock.
Officers who opened the box found the decomposing body of a man, whom they described as wearin💞g women’s clothes.
The deceased was identified as Chiloba and his body was taken to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital to establish ꦛthe cause of death.
Po💧lice spokesperson Resila Onyango said the motive was not yet known.
༺“We don’t know for now why he was killed that wayꦯ. Experts are handling the matter,” she said.
Chiloba is a known LGBT activist and has in the past been attacked and assaulted for his activism, his 🤡friend
LGB♔T people living in Kenya have often decried disc🌺rimination and attacks in a country where sex between men is illegal.
Kenya is largely a conservative society and the president has in past said that gay rights are a non-issue in the east A🎐frican country.
