Teacher commit suicide over pressure. A primary school teacher in Kisii County has reportedly committed suicide due to challenges occasioned by the hard economic times being experienced across the country.
According to the neighbors of the primary teacher who was also disabled, they alleged that the deceased usually complained about the general challenges he is facing following the rise in the cost of living.
The late teacher allegedly was living alone because he separated with his wife sometimes later about three years ago.
It all started when he came home one evening last week and locked himself in his house. He did not open the house the following morning, prompting neighbors and close confidant (family members) to make a follow up.
The family then forced the door open, only to find his body hanging in a sisal rope from the ceiling of the house.
Pastor Julius Makori has asked the residents including teachers from the area to share problems with their colleagues or close friends by opening up to them instead of killing themselves.
A problem shared is half solved, he quoted adding that when one opens up and share with colleagues or any other reliable person it Ease the tension in the minds and relax instead of thinking to commit evil.
Hey was talking at Kerera in village in Nyamache Sub-county at the home of the said primary teacher who committed suicide.
The police from Nyangusu police station moved the body to Nyamache Sub-county for autopsy and consequent investigation on the cause of the death.
The peculiar death in the area comes barely a month after another teacher from St Peters Keberesi Secondary in Kenyenya Sub-county took his own life over differences that emerged between himself and his wife.
With the prevailing economic pressureeconomic pressure many people have been affected with some resorting to adverse measures including committing suicide to escape the bite. Teacher commit suicide over pressure.
