Man commits suicide after wife elopes with police officer

Man commits suicide after wife elopes with police officer

A middle-aged man is reported to have committed suicide over allegations that his wife had eloped with a police officer in Kiptagich village, Kuresoi South Sub-County.

Speaking to Citizen Digital, area chief Wycliffe Too said the deceased, Benjamin Lang’at, was found hanging from a tree with a rope round his neck moments after leaving Kiptagich police station.

Relatives and locals led by the deceased’s brother Amos Langat, two cousins; Josphat Kilel and Andrew Kilel narrated how his estranged wife, together with the officer, allegedly used the area OCS to frustrate him.

According to them, Lang’at’s wife reported that the two motorbikes in his possession belonged to her prompting him to be summoned at midnight to record a statement at Kiptagich police station.

“The wife used her new lover to demand for the motorbikes that belonged to him and Officer Commanding Station in Kiptagich summoned the deceased at midnight despite me advising him against it. I had advised the OCS to do so in the morning,” said area Chief Wycliff Too.

The trio further narrated that it was during the recording of the statement that the said OCS reportedly provoked him.

Huyu ndiye jamaa anashindwa kuchunga bibi yake mpaka sasa unakuja kulia amechukuliwa”, said the OCS. (This is the man who cannot take care of his wife then comes to cry here that she has been taken.)

The police constable accused of eloping with Lang’at’s wife is said to have gone into hiding.

Following the incident, residents of Kiptagich have threatened to hold demonstrations demanding the the arrest of the officer and transfer of the OCS and other officers who they accuse of being unethical.

The body has since been moved to Olenguruone hospital mortuary.

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