The body of Edwin Chiloba was found on Wednesday on a road in Uasin Gishu County, in the west of the country.
Police say a motorcycle taxi operator reported seeing the box being dumped by a vehicle with no license plates.Officers who opened the box found the decomposing body of a man, whom they described as wearing women’s clothes.
The deceased was identified as Chiloba and his body was taken to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital to establish the cause of death.“We don’t know for now why he was killed that way. Experts are handling the matter,” she said. A motorcycle taxi operator reported seeing a box, with Chiloba’s body in it, being dumped by a vehicle.Chiloba has been attacked and assaulted in the past for his activism, according to a close friend.Chiloba is a known LGBT activist and has in the past been attacked and assaulted for his activism, his friendLGBT people living in Kenya have often decried discrimination 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 African country.
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