MASINDI MAN HANGS SELF, LEAVES SUICIDE NOTE

By Innocent Atuganyira

MASINDI:
A 24-year-old man was Wednesday discovered by neighbors dangling on the rope near a toilet in Nyangahya Cell Central Division in Masindi Municipality.

The deceased identified as Mirimo Pius 24, a resident of Ntooma village in Bwijanga Sub county Masindi District was found with a note of paper in his pocket containing the information about his suicide.

According to the note addressed to the family members, the deceased alleged that the cause of his suicide was his wife.

Speaking to our reporter at the scene, the landlady who preferred anonymity explained that she didn’t know the deceased since his wife was the one renting.

”I didn’t know him because the wife identified as Kusiima Hadijja came looking for a room to rent, then they later started staying together,” she said.

Similarly to the landlady, the area chairperson, Kakoko Elizabeth, said she didn’t know the deceased who was staying in her village adding he didn’t report to her office.

She however asked the landlords and landladies to always register their tenants to her office.

The Albertine Regional Police Spokesperson Julius Allan Hakiza confirmed the incident and said the body was taken to Masindi hospital for postmortem.