Boda boda rider poisons two sons, attempts suicide in Nakuru

Detectives are investigating an incident where a man poisoned his two sons before attempting suicide in Nakuru.

The suspect, who is a boda boda rider, is fighting for his life at the Nakuru Teaching and Referral Hospital under tight police surveillance, police said.

The suspect is said to have poisoned his two sons, aged 7 and 12, before attempting to take his own life.

The motive of the incident is yet to be known. According to the victims’ mother, the incident occurred while she was away at work Wednesday.

She works as a food seller who makes deliveries.

She recounted noticing the suspect’s motorcycle outside her home while making deliveries and assumed that her two sons were in good hands.

She then returned to her workplace and called the suspect to ask what he would like for lunch, planning to deliver his and her sons’ meals after completing her deliveries.

Moments later, two of her other children arrived at her workplace, informing her that the two kids at home were crying and in bad condition, unable to be moved.

This was Wednesday, April 2.

“I asked them where the father was and they told me that he had gone to pick a client. I asked my co-worker to hold fort as I rushed home,” the boys’ mother said in an interview.

When she got home, she found her two children suffering from severe diarrhea and crying.

The woman alerted her neighbors, who rushed the two boys to the hospital. She later discovered that the boys' father had also been admitted to the same facility.

The two boys died while receiving treatment.

Their bodies were moved to the Nakuru Hospital mortuary pending autopsy as police hoped to question their father.

Police said they are investigating the incident.

The team handling the matter said they may prefer murder charges for the suspect.