Gov’t Evacuates Garissa University Survivors

Buses from the National Youth Service are currently ferrying the students to the Emergency Rescue Center set up by the Ministry of Interior after the institution was shut down indefinitely.

Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi has directed that the varsity be closed indefinitely.

Meanwhile, the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has advised teachers working in Northern Kenya to leave immediately they feel unsafe.

KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion called on the teachers working in the Northern part of Kenya to ensure that their jobs do not compromise their right to life as guaranteed by the Constitution of Kenya.

Sossion accused the government of being insensitive when it fired the over 1,000 teachers who refused to go back to Mandera after 37 of their colleagues were massacred by militiamen.

Sossion has called for the immediate transfer of surviving students to other universities.

Sossion now wants the facility converted to a security installation for police officers.

Heavily armed attackers stormed Garissa University early Thursday, killing 147 people and injuring 79 others.

By Maureen Murimi