Richard Ng’eno, the estranged husband to Police constable Caroline Kangogo has spoken out day after say she allegedly fatally shot herself in the head at her parents’ home. Mr Nge’eno who is also a senior police officer spoke to a local daily on Saturday 17, July in response to allegations raised against him by Kangogo through her suicide note. A string of messages, suspected to have been authored by the late 34-year-old, had offered a sneak peek into her troubled life. Kangogo attributed her actions to depression occasioned by people close to her, including her former spouse Mr Richard Ng’eno. Kangogo’ in her alleged suicide note said her marriage to Ng’eno was rocked by turbulence, which led to its eventual collapse and disorder in her life.
However, while contacted by a local daily to give his side of the story , Mr Ngeno who is the scroll commandant in charge of Marine Unit at the Kenya Coast Guard said the news of her death shocked his family and children. He asked to be allowed time to process the happenings of the past two weeks.
“The kids are safe, but devastated .Let allow them go through it (mourning) peacefully, please,” he said, adding he was travelling to Bomet, and would give an elaborate interview later.
Kangogo claimed she gradually crept into depression, which in her message she accused one of her close family members of fueling by “constantly blaming her for her failed marriage”.“Divorce pushed me to be inhuman,” she allegedly said in the note.
According to the messages, it was marital-related frustrations that pushed her to precarious levels of mental state. The messages said Kangogo had planned to fatally harm her spouse, but rescinded the decision after evaluating the possible impact of that action on her two children’s lives.
The note ended by Kangogo instructing she be buried at her parents’ home while wearing a white wedding gown to “make up for the wedding she never had”.
She in the alleged suicide message instructed her brother to take care of her children, and at the same time possess all her belonging, adding that nothing should be given to her estranged spouse because “she solely acquired them from scratch”.
Her death has however, sparked speculation, with a section of Kenyans allaging that all indications showed that she was killed elsewhere and her body planed at the scene . Some of the holes pocked into the suicide narrative, questioning why there was no blood spatter on the walls of the room where she was found. Questions were also raised on Why Kangogo’s legs were crossed over the other yet there was the impact of the gunshot which would have sent her thudding on the floor.