Just days after the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) 2017 were released, a second student committed suicide over dissatisfaction with his results.
21-year-old Ledama Rono, 21, from Enooretet village in Narok County took tick poison on Friday, December 22 after he got a C- in his results.
Rono, a former student of Osinoni Secondary School in Transmara, ingested the poison due to frustration over his results.
According to his family, Rono had been undergoing frustrations since the release of the KCSE results on Tuesday, saying that others in the village performed better than him. Sources say he lamented that he had performed terribly and let himself and everyone else down.
Rono’s case comes shortly after that of 22-year-old Carren Ouma of Moi Nyabohanse Girls High School who jumped into a well after scoring a C-.
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Investigations led by Migori County Police Boss Joseph Nthenge established that Carren’s parents had picked a quarrel with her about her performance prompting her to commit the cat.
This was Carren’s second time to sit for the exam.
Rono’s death came amidst talks about the credibility of the results. The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary General Wilson Sossion among others has accused Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i of hastening the marking process hence causing many flaws.
Matiang’i, on the other hand, has maintained that the exam process was well done and needs no repeat.
