A secondary school teacher from Shianda area, Mumias East Sub County has committed suicide under unclear circumstances in .
The body of 45 year old Pius Okumu, was discovered on Sunday morning by his employee. He committed suicide by hanging himself in his shop. He had been running a salon, Mpesa and a barber outlet at the rented premises for the last two years.
The deceased was a teacher at St Martha’s Mwitoti Secondary school.
In an interview, his neighbour Dennis Munyanya , who spent time with the deceased on Saturday evening up to 8.00pm, said he never showed any signs of being disturbed by anything.
“After school, he joined us at the shop when we parted ways and agreed to meet the following day. I was shocked when I received news of his death in the morning,” said Mr Munyanya.
Munyanya said he never showed signs of being disturbed, adding that he was a quiet person who never shared his problems with anybody.
Mr Okumu is very secretive and maintained his conservative life until his death. I wish he shared his problems with us, we would have been willing to help him,” said Munyanya.
His landlord Wilfred Akwiri mentioned that he had been his tenant for the last two years and never confided to him that he was suffering from anything, let alone contemplating suicide.
But another neighbour who sought anonymity claimed that the deceased’ family has a history of committing suicide. Mumias OCPD Peter Kattam said police had initiated investigations to the matter, with aim of getting to the root cause of his death. His body is currently at St Mary’s hospital mortuary awaiting postmortem.