I can’t keep fighting: Varsity student's suicide note

Police are investigating a suicide incident that involved a university student in Kesses, Uasin Gishu county.

The body of Dickson Mutinda, a second-year business management student at the Moi University Annex Campus, was found hanging on a truss police said.

He left a suicide note saying he could not keep fighting.

Mutinda’s roomates told the police they left him in his room at Sugunanga shopping centre and went for classes on February 24.

When they came back, they found the door to the room locked from inside before forcing it open and finding Mutinda dead.

The body was moved to the mortuary pending postmortem, police said.

Suicide cases have been on the rise with police recording up to five daily.

According to statistics, most of the victims are men.

The World Health Organisation says such cases are attributed to joblessness, death, academic failure or pressure and legal and financial difficulties.

Other reasons are bullying, previous suicide attempts, history of suicide in a family, alcoholism and substance misuse, depression and bipolar disorder.

Authorities say police and other security agencies are exposed to many forms of trauma, hence the worrying trend of suicide.

In Suguta Mar Mar in Samburu county, a three-year-old child died after he was trapped in a mud wall in their compound.

Police said the family had on February 23 demolished part of their house and left a corner wall standing.

The following day, the boy went to play at the scene unnoticed by his parents. It was then that the wall collapsed and trapped him fatally.

The family realised he was missing prompting a brief search that discovered the body.

The body was moved to the mortuary pending postmortem.

In Mpeketoni, Lamu county, a seven-year-old boy and a Grade 2 pupil at Sinambio Primary School was found drowned in a dam.

He had gone to take care of their goats when he failed to return home.

This prompted a search that led the team to the dam where his clothes were found.

His body was later retrieved from the water and moved to the mortuary pending postmortem and burial on the same day on February 24.