Monday, April 7, 2025 - Grief engulfed Kagoga village in Homa Bay County, Kenya after a police officer k!lled his two children and one other child before committing suicide over a dispute with his wife.
David Okebe committed suicide in his house at Kagoga
village, Kakdhimu East Location, in Rachuonyo West Sub- County on Sunday, April
6, 2025. He was attached to Marsabit Police Station.
Okebe k!lled his six-year-old son, his five-year-old
daughter and his in-law’s five-year-old son.
It is suspected that Okebe poisoned the children before he
hanged himself in the house.
Trouble began some time back when Okebe disagreed with his
wife. The wife then fled her matrimonial home with the children for her
parents’ home.
Homa Bay County Police Commander Lawrence Koilem said the
police constable took days off from his work and went to the wife’s parents’
home. He took the three children to his home.
However, on Sunday, people who went into his house found the
four d3ad.
The bodies of his son and daughter were found in the bed,
while the body of his in-law’s son lay in a chair in the sitting room.
“The information we have got is that the officer disagreed
with his wife. The wife went to her parents’ home with the children. The
officer followed her and took the children back before this incident occurred,”
Koilem said.
Koilem said the children’s mouths exuded foam, an indication
that they might have been poisoned.
“Foam was exuding from the mouths of the children, but they
did not have visible injuries,” Koile said.
Koilem said their preliminary investigations revealed that
the officer committed suicide due to differences with his wife and in-laws.
This came through a suicide note the deceased officer left.
“The officer left a suicide note in which he was accusing
his wife and in-laws as the cause of the problems which made him commit suicide
and k!ll the children,” the police boss added.
Koimet urged parents to intervene in resolving disputes in
marriages of their children.
He also told residents to seek guidance and counselling
whenever they faced difficulties in life.
“If the disputes between the officer and his wife were
resolved amicably, the deaths would not have occurred. Let our people seek
guidance and counselling whenever they face difficult problems,” Koimet
said.
The bodies were moved to Home Bay Teaching and Referral
Hospital Mortuary.
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