The body of a bodaboda operator was retrieved from River Athi at Kasuitu slum in Athi River Town on Thursday.
Ndunda Mutisya, 23, allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday evening under unclear circumstances.
Speaking to HiviSasa at the scene shortly after the body was retrieved, the deceased's father, Jackson Moli, said his second born son on that fateful day left his parents' rented house at the slum in a ‘disturbed state’.
"Mutisya never went to work on Tuesday, I spent the whole day with him in my house where I lived with him together with his six other siblings. When it was around 4pm I left him outside and I got inside to get a sweater for him since it was getting cold," said Moli.
Moli said the deceased left their compound for the river immediately he wore the sweater which he had given him.
"My son left the compound leaving me and his mother behind without telling us anything, he was in a disturbed state though," said Moli.
Moli narrated how his wife in company of two neighbours followed the deceased to try and prevent him from coming to harm but he says they couldn't reach him in time.
He says his son had been brought home by six fellow bodaboda operators on Monday evening at 9pm for allegedly developing "psychological problems" while at work.
He said the body was spotted on Thursday noon by volunteers floating a few metres from where the deceased had drowned, after a futile search on Wednesday,.
Moli said the volunteers retrieved the body and handed it to the police officers from Athi River Police Station.
The body was taken to Machakos Level 5 Hospital Mortuary awaiting postmortem and burial at the family's village home at Muwini Village in Kathiani.