Police officers investigating the murder of Dr Laban Lang'at, who was found dead at the Nakuru Level 5 Hospital last week, identified two puzzling leads in the probe.
On the night of his murder, Dr Lang'at left a local club in Nakuru County and went to the hospital in the wee hours of the morning.
However, the detectives are investigating why the intern reported for work at a time when he was supposed to be off duty.
Further, the officers disputed claims from the hospital management that the CCTV footage was tampered with on the night of the murder.
According to the management, the cameras were functional on the fateful day but malfunctioned at the time of the murder.
They hence claimed that an individual accessed the facility's CCTV control room and tampered with the footage. Details of the suspect are still scanty.
Detectives also pieced together the final conversation between Dr Lang'at and a boda rider before arriving at the facility.
According to the boda rider, the doctor reached out to him outside a local club in Nakuru while in an intoxicated state.
After a brief conversation between the two on the transportation charges, the doctor boarded the motorcycle en route to Nakuru Level 5 Hospital.
"He was silent during the entire journey. He alighted outside the facility at a junction leading to the staff quarters and the other heading to the maternity wing," the rider explained.
According to Yegon, the intern walked towards the maternity wing direction before the rider sped off. The following day, Dr Lang'at was, however, found dead and dumped in a drainage near the maternity wing, 50 metres from the Hospital's entrance.
A postmortem examination conducted on the body revealed that the doctor died due to strangulation. Following the incident, medical officers urged detectives to fast-track the case and arrest the perpetrators of the heinous crime.
