The Mayor of Kigangazi Town Council, Ssalongo Yasin Kawuma, has urged residents in Bukomansimbi district to seek help from their local leaders, district leaders, and councilors when facing difficulties instead of killing themselves in haste.

Kawuma made these remarks after a 35-year-old man committed suicide in his mother’s kitchen on Tuesday morning, May 14, 2024.

The mother of the deceased has been identified as Namiro, while the deceased was identified as John Kiguli, both residents of Kasenyi village in Kigangazi Town Council, Bukomansimbi district.

According to the locals in Kasenyi village, Kiguli had spent some time telling them how he was going to show them and his mother something big, which would be an unforgettable experience for them.

Residents added that he has been acting normal and that they couldn’t suspect him of having issues that eventually pushed him to kill himself.

While being interviewed by journalists on May 14, 2024, Kawuma revealed that Kiguli had for a while been promising to unveil a big surprise for them, but whenever he was asked for details, he would ask them to be patient.

The mayor added that on May 13, 2024, Kiguli visited some of his friends and told them how the deadline for the big surprise had arrived and that they needed to get ready. However, they dismissed this since he had been talking about it for a long time.

‘’On May 13, 2024, the deceased woke and closed his rental where he has been staying in Kasenyi, and his neighbors thought he was going to work, but we were surprised to hear cries of help from his mother when she found him dead in her kitchen,’’Kawuma recounted.

Kawuma revealed that it might have been a deep family issue that made Kiguli commit suicide since he committed suicide in his mother’s kitchen.

Kawuma urged the locals to always check on each other, to confide in one another, or to seek help from leaders so that they are helped instead of killing themselves because they leave their families in too much pain.