Turn-boy attempts suicide to protest lost love

By PKEMOI NG‘ENOH

KERICHO, KENYA: A man in Kericho County attempted to commit suicide by jumping into a cattle dip in a bid to protest stolen love.

The agony of losing a lover to another man can be devastating and painful.

According to residents, the 27-year-old man, a turn boy to renowned long distance trucks operating across East Africa, had been away from his home for close to three months.

 Unknown to him, his long-time girlfriend had been taken by a boda boda operator.

The girl in question, a pretty college graduate, ran a wholesale shop in the nearby shopping centre where the boda boda operator got a chance to try his luck while the turn boy was away.

Sources who spoke to Crazy Monday intimated that the boda boda operator spent most of his time in the girl‘s workplace as his colleagues scrambled for customers.  The girl became his regular client, and always picked her in the morning and dropped her home in the evening.

A source told this writer all the services the boda boda rider offered were free of charge, as an inducement to win the woman’s heart.

News that his girlfriend had swallowed the boda boda operator’s bait, and was slowly but surely drifting away, reached him while on transit.

The turn boy could not abandon his work, and thus patiently waited till he came back home.

Furnished

He arrived and proceeded to look for his informers, who furnished him with details of the ongoings.

The disturbing details of how tables had been turned angered the turn boy.

“He found us seated in one of the houses where we updated him, at some point he called his girlfriend and we heard him asking her why she has been cheating on him,” said one of the informers who happened to be the turn boy’s brother.

While whining in a phone conversation with his estranged girlfriend, the turn boy sauntered outside as if to seek privacy.

Unknown to his brother and other informers, the depressed turn boy had one thing on his mind — murder!

When the worried turn boy’s brother stepped out to see what was going on, he saw his brother charging towards a cattle dip in lightning speed. Upon alerting the rest, a chase began in a bid to save the turn boy from himself.

Unfortunately, the man was more swift, as they arrived, he had jumped in the dip and they only found air bubbles in the cattle dip. Luckily, youths arrived and successfully rescued him from drowning and rushed him to a nearby medical centre.

 He was given first aid and given copious amounts of milk before being discharged.

“Luckily, the cattle dip had not been in use for a while and he had only gulped water devoid of any poisonous chemicals.

“He appeared to be traumatised and in desperate need of counseling. He has no option but to accept and move on, his girlfriend was taken for good,” a villager said.