The family of a 28-year-old medical student Rodgers Kipruto who died by suicide in Finland had asked his parents for money before he took his life.
Kipruto had expressed concern about the tough living conditions in Finland before he gave up and took his own life on April 18.
Leah Kosgey, the mother, said the son and many of his fellow students from Uasin Gishu often time asked for money to support themselves in the foreign nation.
“ He had asked us to send him something because he was financially down. They (students) don’t even go a month without asking for money. He was going through a hard time,” Kipruto’s mother Leah Kosgey said.
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The Father, Jonathan Kosgey, said the son was their hope and it is saddening that he is no more.
“When you take a child abroad, you have hope that he will help himself and help the family. Then you hear he will come in a casket. It is painful," he said.
The family is now appealing to the government to help them in having the body back home for the final burial rites.
