A 22-year-old man hang himself shortly after receiving medical results from a clinic at Loikas village, Samburu Central Sub-county. The area police commander Alex Rotich said the man had submitted samples for several medical tests after he experienced general body weakness.
"He was then declared positive of a disease that we cannot share, and that could have influenced his actions," Rotich said. A resident of the village said the man was worried the disease would affect his lifestyle and locked himself in his house.
After neighbours failed to see him around, they got into his house and found him dangling from a rope that he had tied to the roof. It is, however, not clear if the man received medical counsel, as is procedure, before receiving results that had the potential to destabilise him.
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Police officers visited the scene and took the body to the Samburu County Referral Hospital mortuary in Maralal town for postmortem examination. The rope was also bagged for forensic examination. The area Nyumba Kumi chairman, Emanuel Ng’inero, expressed his shock at the suicide, saying, “He was very young. You don't expect him to end his life just like that”.
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He joined other elders in the village in advising the youth against taking their own lives. The man's family said they would bury the body immediately the postmortem is completed.
Elsewhere, a family is in grief after two of their kin drowned in a river. The family living at Got Kokech village in Homa Bay Sub-county lost two sons, a fourth-year university student and another in form four.The students drowned in river Rang’wena on Thursday evening.
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One was expected to graduate at Egerton University while the other was waiting to sit his KCSE exams at Wikoteng’ Secondary School. East Kanyada Location Chief John Akado said passersby became suspicious after spotting clothes and slippers abandoned on the river bank. "They (villagers) raised alarm prompting divers to jump into the river and retrieve the bodies,” he said.
