The family of a 20 year old student at Meru National Polytechnic have disowned a self-recorded video of their daughter swallowing pills in an apparent suicide, moments before she was found lying unconscious in her room.
Ms Fridah Makena died last Friday while undergoing treatment at Consolata Hospital, Nkubu where her friends had rushed her.
The Business Management student shared the video with her friends via WhatsApp.
In the 26-second clip, which has since gone viral on social media, Ms Fridah Makena is seen swallowing some unspecified tablets moments before her friends found her unconscious in her room.
Reports at the institution indicate Ms Makena had differed with her boyfriend, a student at the Cooperative University of Kenya, whom she accused of cheating.
She was buried on Thursday in Kaunjugi village, Imenti South, Meru county.
The family however insists that Makena died of liver and kidney failure.
In her eulogy, the family says that; “On February 25, 2019, she was taken ill and admitted at Nkubu Consolata hospital where she underwent treatment. On February 28, 2019, as she was receiving treatment, her condition worsened due to kidney and liver failure, she succumbed while undergoing treatment.”