KWS officer dies by suicide at Nairobi headquarters

One KWS officer died by suicide at agency headquarters; the incident highlights ongoing mental health crisis among disciplined forces personnel.

On a Saturday afternoon in Nairobi, a Kenya Wildlife Service corporal was found dead in a washroom at the agency's own headquarters — a man who had spent his working life guarding wildlife now gone by his own hand. The death of Corporal Richard Ndegwa Gichia, 39, is not an aberration but a signal, one in a rising pattern of suicides among Kenya's uniformed services where the weight of duty, trauma, and unaddressed suffering has quietly become its own kind of casualty. Across the wildlife service, police, prisons, and military, the question being asked with increasing urgency is whether the ins

KWS officer dies by suicide at Nairobi headquarters

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