Police officer commits suicide over bank loan troubles
A Police officer committed suicide on Tuesday night over financial troubles that had led him to incur a huge bank debt.
The Mandera-based police constable committed suicide in his house in Kisumu.
According to a police report, Constable Tyrus Omondi hanged himself from the roof of his house in Manyatta slums using a rope.
The officer left behind a suicide note stating that he was in deep debt and his salary is negative as well.
A separate note found next to his body had calculations that included a listing of months of the year he presumably earned “negative salary”.
A name of a bank was also indicated in the piece of paper with the words “suicide”.
Police said investigations into the suicide are ongoing as they wait for postmortem results from the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital.
According to a relative who reported the suicide, she had gone to visit the police officer on Tuesday evening and found his door wide open after several unanswered calls.
The deceased left behind a wife and son who were away in Kitale when the incident happened.