Northern Province Police Commissioner Charity Katanga has expressed concern at the high number of suicide cases in the area .
Mrs Katanga has advised aggrieved people to first seek counsel before taking their won lives.
Mrs Katanga said this in the wake of three people who committed suicide in Kasama last week.
She said such evil acts could have been avoided if the aggrieved persons sought advice from elderly people in their respective communities.
The Police Commissioner however warned that it becomes a crime in an event of one failing to achieve his or her goal of committing suicide and is punishable by the courts of law.
On Monday last week, a 45 year old man of Munkonge village hanged himself after the death his mother.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday last week a student of Lukashya Trades Institute took his life by jumping off a rail bridge after his girlfriend was allegedly grabbed from him by another man and on Friday a 27 year old man hanged himself near a named church.
mamamamamam! what? where is Nostradamus,,,,, why are your people killing themselves???
@Ndobo, My friend people used to run to Chitimukulu for counseling. There used to be Insaka every Friday night in villages where people brought in their troubles and got advise. Sosala’s kingdom is invaded.
From time Sata sent ka Charity there with a gang of paramilitaries to fight Sosala, they created a curfew. All those ghosts knows where to go, mwati bakapola Ba Sata, one problem after the other….
Mrs katanga, what kind of reasoning is this, shouldn’t the first be finding out why people are committing suicide? after that attend to that issue? how do you just order people to stop killing themselves if you can’t attempt to find out why? people who are serious about suicide will not walk to a council willingly to say..’stop me from killing myself’..you first need to investigate, the address the issue by aiming at those who are directly affected by it