KENYA: MAN COMMIT SUICIDE OVER WIFE’S ALLEGED INFIDELITY

BY DICKENS WASONGA.

RESIDENTS of Wath Orego Village of Kisumu’s Winam division woke up to a rude shock on Monday last week after they stumbled upon the body of a man dangling on a tree outside the gates of one of the homesteads in the area.

According to the residents who spoke to this writer, the deceased identified as Ronald Omondi 27 reportedly committed suicide to protest his wife’s alleged unfaithfulness.

The deceased who hails from Kamrongo Village of Miwani division is said to have trekked to Wath Orego, his in-laws place where he allegedly took away his life by hanging himself with a rope a to a tree right at the gates leading to his wife’s rural home.

Sources who claimed to have known him told reporters that before his death, the deceased had on several occasions visited his in laws and sought help from them over the alleged infidelity practiced by his wife.

They claimed he was not helped by the in laws whom they alleged defended their daughter over the accusations.

Those close to the family claimed the two disagreed repeatedly and the woman was always going back to her parents whenever they fell out.

Through a suicide note left behind and recovered by villagers at the scene where he ended his life, the deceased gave a detailed account on why he committed suicide.

He wrote in the suicide note that he chose to hang himself than continue to face frustrations visited upon him by his wife.

The police from Kondele later took away the body of the deceased person for postmortem.

ENDS.

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