Mapenzi sumu! security guard kills self after wife indulges in ‘extra-marital affairs’

Shock as Baringo North security guard working in a local road construction company commits suicide after reports that his wife has an extra-marital affair.

The lifeless body of Kokwon Lochale, 43, was found hanging on a tree in the bush near Bartabwa dam on Thursday morning.

“He had gone missing since Wednesday night after reportedly quarreling with his wife, then we began the search only to find him dead” a witness, Isaac Chemormor said.

The man is a casual laborer (security guard) at Mattan Company currently working on the ongoing Kipsaraman-Bartabwa-Kinyach tarmac road.

He had just arrived home last week to spend the Christmas with his family after the roads company allowed its staff to break out for holiday until next year.

Last week, the area MP William Cheptumo and officials from Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) summoned the company for shoddy work.

Sources close to the bereaved family said for several years the couple had endless wrangles over “wife having hidden illicit love affairs with other men, especially his colleagues” a relative hinted.

Reports also say the two had unresolved disputes over payment of the children secondary school fees and meeting the family basic needs.

However police took the body to Baringo Referral Hospital Mortuary while investigations have been launched to ascertain the root cause of the death.

Some witnesses and family members have recorded statement at Kipsaraman Divisional Administrative offices pending police investigations.

Baringo North Sub-county Deputy Commissioner Joseph Opwocha condemned the incident saying he has got no much to details to comment on because the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) is currently handling the case.

“We will be able to get back once we get the full details but for now I urge the residents to calm down and stop spreading propaganda” Opwocha said.

-JOSEPH KANGOGO