Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen addresses a press conference at Nyeri County headquarters on August 21, 2025, where he presided over the Jukwaa la Usalama forum. Murkomen expressed concern over the rising cases of suicide in Nyeri County, noting that on average, about eight people take their own lives every month. He called for closer collaboration between the county government and other stakeholders to address the crisis, adding that 70 percent of the reported cases involve men. The CS further emphasized that the problem cannot be attributed to poverty—since Nyeri is among the richest counties in the country—but rather to other underlying social issues.