A police officer has penned down a book highlighting the hard living and working conditions corps go through.
Corporal Dennis Ouko Ntabo, a traffic officer based in Nakuru revealed in his book tittled 'The Paradox of Love', is a brain child of both personal and colleagues experience.
Speaking when he appeared before the National Police Service Commision vetting in Hotel Konste in Nakuru, Ouko said that he experienced heartbreak when his to be wife betrayed him three days to his weeding when he busted her in a compromising situation in a lodging.
“I almost committed suicide as I felt rejected and I saw no meaning of life as I had just come from training and I was eager to (start a family),” he narrated.
Ouko added that lack of enough houses for the officers which compel them to share houses, often leads to some officers to turn to their colleagues' wive's while they are on night duties.
“I will never forget this one embarrassing moment when one of the officers returned from night shift and caught his wife in the act with a fellow police officer. The memory still haunts me,” he added.
Corporal Ouko also points out the psychological stress officers go through at work, which he says is often transferred to their families when they go back home.
“It is high time we have counsellors in the police service because even those officers who misuse their arms and kill their colleagues are doing that because of lack of such a crucial service,” he advised.
Ouko told the panel that he is in the process of writing another book. NPSC Chairman Johnstone Kavuludi praised the junior officer for highlighting plight of his colleagues.
"I want to appreciate this officer as he has gone beyond his call of duty and has made tremendous contribution by documenting the conditions under which his colleagues lives," Kavuludi said.
Corporal Dennis Ouko Ntabo, who wrote the the book 'Paradox of Love'.