Two students died mysteriously at Ntana village in North Mugirango Constituency of Nyamira County. According to villagers, the first one to die was a Form Three student from Mwongori’s High School. She was reportedly called by her parents to report home and attend the burial ceremony of her grandfather.
During the night vigil, she privately joined her university boyfriend with his four colleagues for night enjoyment. The group had slipped away from the main gathering sometime after midnight, saying they were going to “get fresh air” near the edge of the village along Ratandi pathway.
Those who saw them later said the five were cheerful on the way until the boyfriend reportedly poked the girl’s cheek with a sharp object that pierced and hurt her badly. When they went to check at around 2 a.m. on Friday, they found the girl lying unconscious on the floor and rushed her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
News of her death spread quickly through Ntana village. Shock turned into anger as villagers demanded to know the boy behind the killing and the motive behind the shocking death. The parents of the girl said they had not known she had left the homestead and blamed the lack of supervision during the vigil.
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After the alleged university student killer heard that his girlfriend, now turned victim, had died in hospital, he reportedly took a new sisal rope and hanged himself from the upper floor of a storey building. “I saw the new sisal rope suspending heavily into the bricks, and when I went near, I saw a foaming, dead body and screamed to alert people,” said a neighbour who identified herself as Jane. Villagers informed the police, who took the body to Nyamira Teaching Hospital Mortuary pending further investigation into the two deaths.
Area Chief James Omae urged parents and guardians to take responsibility during funeral gatherings, saying that night vigils had become venues for reckless behaviour. “We cannot keep burying our children because of negligence and peer pressure,” he said.
Investigations are ongoing.
By Enock Okong’o
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