Protests Erupt After University Student Commits Suicide

A 21-year-old university student has reportedly passed away through suicide citing academic frustrations by a female lecturer.

The student’s body was found dangling from the top of an apartment wall in Waiteithie Estate, Nairobi, on Wednesday, December 11, at around 9:00 am.

According to witnesses, the body was first spotted by passers-by who saw the body hanging from the top of the apartment, prompting them to alert fellow residents.

Moments later, students from the institution arrived at the scene and identified the deceased as their fellow. It was during the process of identification that the residents stumbled upon a letter believed to have been drafted by the deceased.

Inside the suicide note, the deceased explained he was pushed to end his life after enduring struggles both financially and academically.

He further narrated his harrowing experience as a student at the institution, citing emotional setbacks that he claimed greatly hampered his academic progress.

The student further accused one of the lecturers of contributing to his challenges adding that the female lecturer often failed him in the examinations and forced him to repeat some of the tests.

Hours later, police officers arrived at the scene and picked up the body before commencing an investigation to unravel the root cause of the boy’s demise.

While reacting to the learner’s death, a section of university students staged demonstrations over what they termed as continuous frustration by lecturers.

The students also accused the university’s students’ leadership of incompetence claiming the student leaders arrived later after the learner’s body had already been ferried to the mortuary for preservation.

“We have never staged a demonstration but this time round we are going to do it. These student leaders have come here very late after the boy’s body has been removed from the top of the wall,” lamented one of the students.

“The lecturer must go, we have decided that she must go home when this body died, he shared a message explaining what happened to him,” the student added.