Had Peter Chege died when jumped in Indian Ocean to end his life he would have taken huge debts to grave.
MrChege told a Mombasa court that he tried to kill himself because he was burdened with debts.
Peter Chege also said that he drank a lot of alcohol in order to gain the courage to kill himself.
The married father of three further claimed that debts had weighed him down since 2015 and could not see any way out of this situation by the time he tried to end his life in February 22. He also said his financial troubles started in 2009 and he has harboured suicidal thoughts since 2015.
But Chege also stunned the same court when he disclosed that no sooner did he jump into the Indian Ocean than he regained composure and remembered his family and changed his mind.
According to the prosecution Chege attempted to end his life by jumping from the MV Harambee ferry on the Likoni channel and was rescued by lifeguards on a separate ferry.
He denied the assertion that he was rescued and asserted that the lifeguards only retrieved him from a shallow area of the channel where he swam to after changing his mind not to end his life.
Senior Resident Magistrate Martin Rabera said the verdict will be delivered on March 7, 2019 after an assessment by the probation officer.