A teacher committed suicide in Bondo, Siaya County over Jubilee government's Primary School laptops project.
According to Citizen Digital, Elkana Owino Omondi, a teacher at Migiro Primary school, had a disagreement with the school management over two school laptops that went missing.
The father of ten took his own life after reportedly being frustrated by the school administration over the laptops.
The Area Deputy County Commissioner Samson Akach indicated that the deceased left behind a suicide note which detailed his frustrations.
In the suicide note, Owino maintained his innocence and his lack of means to replace what he was being wrongfully accused of stealing.
The teacher also implicated two colleagues in the same school whom he accused of being behind his tribulations at the school.
His body was found in his house at Nango Trading Centre and later moved to Bondo sub-county hospital mortuary awaiting post-mortem.
The free laptops project, meant to benefit primary schools across the country, has suffered a setback after incidences of robbery threw the digital literacy programme into disarray.
For instance, sources indicate that up to four schools in Bungoma County have lost hundreds of branded tablets and the teacher's instructional laptops which are allegedly sneaked and sold in neighbouring Uganda.
According to The Standard, one of the laptops was being used to play music in a busaa club at Bumbo market in Uganda, barely 3km from the Kenyan border.
Tulienge Primary in Bungoma lost 47 laptops on May 4, 2018, while Namawanga FYM Primary lost 64 in August 2017, after thugs cut off part of the roof above the head teacher’s office leaving the school with only 21 tablets.
Mufungu Salvation Army (SA) Primary School lost 49 of the 72 tablets issued by the government in September last year while Namunyu Primary lost 46 laptops in a similar incident.
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