A 17-year-old secondary school student who was set to sit for this year's Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams committed suicide after he was warned against coming home late.
Abel Nyakundi Bichang’a of Riosiago secondary school in Esani location in Nyamira County killed himself after he his father, James Gichana, urged him to focus on revising for his KCSE exams.
Sources say the deceased on Saturday arrived home late, at around 8pm, which prompted his father to question his seriousness in the coming exams .
Mr Gichana said the boy was not impressed with the warning he had been given when he left the house.
“After that short conversation the deceased walked out quietly without uttering a word though his facial expressions indicated he was not pleased with the warning and we thought he has gone to sleep with his siblings in their room and we also slept,” Gichana said as quoted by People Daily.
The deceased was found on Sunday morning dangling from an avocado tree.
His mother Rose Nyaboke was heading to the garden when he found the deceased on a tree.
“I decided to just go to the farm and wait till he comes to know where he spent the night and on my way to the farm just outside his grandfather’s house, I was shocked to see him dangling from an ovacado tree,” the mother added amid sobs.
Nyamira County Commissioner, Amos Mariba who confirmed the death urged residents share their problems with people around them.