A close friend to Laban Langat, a medical intern who was found dead in Nakuru County, has narrated her last interaction with the deceased hours before the news of his death broke.
Speaking to the media on Sunday, January 14, the female friend named Monica Wanjiku said that she had been in touch with Laban a few hours before his death.
According to her narration, Langat was on duty on Friday night, January 12, at the Nakuru Referral and Teaching Hospital where he had been deployed at the Margaret Kenyatta Mother-Baby wing.
In an interview, Monica said that they were texting each other on Friday night until around 11pm when she retired to bed.
According to her account, she would later wake up at 4.45 am on Saturday responding to text messages that Laban had sent while she was asleep.
However, her early morning messages went unanswered leaving her with questions about what could have happened to Laban.
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But she did not call Laban immediately, noting that she chose to call him later when the day broke.
“We spoke until 11pm on Saturday, I was so tired and therefore l slept,” she said in the interview.
“I woke up at around 4:45 am and I decided to respond to some of his last messages, from the previous night, but l was shocked since there was no response,” she added.
Monica Learns About Laban Langat Murder
According to Monica, Langat had informed her of plans to watch a rugby match scheduled to take place in the vicinities of his workstation.
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Further in her revelations of her last conversations with Laban, Monica Wanjiku said that she was not aware of any plan by the deceased to go out on the night the murder is believed to have taken place.
She noted that she only came to learn about Laban’s death hours later on Saturday with the news leaving her in utter shock.
Autopsy Report
According to the pathologist handling Laban’s case, the body had injuries on the head and his neck.
On their part, family members expressed their grief in the murder of their son whom they described as their beacon of hope judging from his budding career.
Doctors under the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) also issued a statement demanding investigations into the death of the young doctor.
