Love triangle? Suicide note left by officer lays blame on woman

An administration police who killed himself on Sunday morning made frantic signals to his colleagues before committing the act.

Conversations obtained by The Standard show colleagues beseeching Jonah Kimani on a WhatsApp group to take leave and get rest.

The officer, both in his WhatsApp message and suicide note, even disclosed the identity of the person he said was responsible for his action.

In a message posted some hours before the suicide act, the officer said the person to blame was a lady from Lokichar.

“When I die there is a Turkana lady from Lokichar who have (sic) killed me, familia ya akina Hilda,” his message posted at 4:17am, presumably hours before he took his life, read in part.

A colleague replied to the message at 4:21am: “Iko nini boss (what's the problem)?”

There was no response.

At 4:43am the colleague reached out again.

“Iko nini boss…ebu chukua leave kwanza uende home kama iko dalili ya wewe kuuawa, potea uhai ni ya muhimu sana (Just take leave and go home if you suspect someone is out to kill you. Life is precious),” read the message.

The officer, identified as Jonah Kimani in the OB report, is said to have shot himself dead by 7:30am.

According to the OB report, Kimani shot himself on the "throat" with his AK-47 and the bullet exited at the back of his head. “He spent one ammunition to terminate his life. The officer was deployed to patrol duties within Tena Estate, but he later changed to his civilian clothes, shortly after he went to his house and closed the door,” read the report.

It added: “His colleagues, who were on duty within the camp, heard a gunshot from the officer’s house. On breaking the window, they saw the officer lying dead in bed with his gun, and blood oozing from the throat and head.”

Beside his body was a suicide note that detailed the identity of the said woman.

The note showed the officer had a son and a daughter barely a year old. The officer instructed that his daughter be given all his shares "even if she is seven-months-old."

He named the woman, saying she hailed from Turkana South. “God forgive me because it is not my wish to die young. But whoever is the cause of my death let her not rest even a single minute.”

The Standard tried to reach the woman, but her number was "no longer in service".