BY BONIE
A woman aged 37 year from Kavisuni location in
Katulani sub county in Kitui county has committed suicide after failing to
raise form one school fee for her young daughter who scored 396 marks in last
year’s KCPE exams and had been selected to join Chongoria girls high school
.
According to Katulani Administration Police
commandant Aliphonce Anaswa, the police were alerted by a neighbor who saw the
body of the middle aged woman hanging on a tree near her home on Wednesday
morning.
“We got reports of the
death from a neighbor who saw the body of the woman hanging on a tree near her
home in kavisuni area,” confirmed Mr. Anaswa.
According to the police
boss, the woman is suspected to have committed suicide after failing to raise
school fee for her daughter who who scored 396 mark in KCPE last year and is
said to had also threatened to kill herself if her mother fails to take her to
school.
“We suspect that the
woman might have opted to kill herself after failing to raise school fee for
her daughter who had performed well in last year’s KCPE. Reports reaching us is
that the daughter had threatened her mother that she would also commit suicide
in case her mother failed to raise enough school fee to support her education,”
added the police OCPD.
The body has been since
taken to Kitui level 4 hospital morgue waiting for postmortem to determine the
actual cause of death, as police investigations on the matter continue.
End.
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