A class five boy is alleged to have committed suicide in school Photo/HuffPost
On Monday, an 11 year old boy is reported to have committed suicide in a school dormitory leaving his guardian desperately seeking answers.
Maara OCPD Johnstone Kabusia says, Tonny Muthomi, the standard five pupil at Kajiunduthi Boarding Primary School hanged himself.
According to Kabusia, the issue was reported by the school's head teacher, Ms Catherine Murithi and the incident happened after the boy arrived from home where he had gone to seek medical attention for a toothache.
“After the tooth was extracted, the guardian accompanied the boy back to school and left but the pupil took his life after he was allowed into the dormitory to keep his luggage according to the statement by the head teacher,” said Kabusia as quoted by the Daily Nation.
According to the boy’s guardian Ms Wanja Karuku, there are still many unanswered questions and she continues to refute claims of suicide.
She states that claims of the boy not being happy in school was a lie since he had only been in school for barely one term.
“The boy was very jovial when I was taking him back to school and I had also trained him and I have never heard him complain about the school. This is a total shock,” she said.
Maara Sub County Director of Education Samuel Macharia has confirmed that they are working with the police in the investigations.
“We don’t want to speculate on the real cause of the death until the police conclude their investigations. So, for now we believe that the boy committed suicide,” Macharia said.