A 51-year-old man committed suicide in Leshau Trading Centre in Nyandarua County on Monday morning over Laikipia Governor Joshua Irungu's loss in the General Election.
According to Nyandarua North OCPD Timon Odingo, David Mugambi Mathenge, who is a tout in Nyahururu Town, was found hanging from the ceiling of his house.
The OCPD stated that Mugambi had left behind a suicide note stating that he had decided to take his life after Irungu, who was his preferred candidate, lost in the Laikipia governor's race.
The note read, “(Sababu ya kushukua mwili wangu ni sababu ya Joshua Irungu kushindwa)...the reason for taking my life is because of Joshua Irungu’s defeat.”
Irungu, who was vying on a Jubilee Party ticket, was defeated by Independent Candidate Ndiritu Muriithi.
Muriithi got 100,342 votes against Irungu’s 98349 votes.
This comes a few days after an IEBC Presiding officer committed suicide over the weekend.
The body of Orenge Nyabicha, who was a presiding officer at the Imara Daima polling Station, was found on Saturday morning.
According to a post mortem conducted on the body, Mr Nyabicha died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Police, who recovered the body at his house in Quarry, Pipeline area, discovered a charcoal stove that had been lit with all the ventilation holes in the house covered.
In a suicide note he left behind, Nyabicha expressed frustrations in the electoral body’s failure to deliver a credible, free and fair election.
