UNIVERSITY STUDENTS DEMAND ENHANCED SECURITY

Apr 15, 2015 Ivy Keziah Education, Kisumu, National, News, Regional 0

The Kisumu County Student’s Union organization (KICOSU) held a peaceful demonstration to demand more security officers to be posted in the institution the government as a sign of seriousness to secure all leaning institution.

The students held demonstrations that lasted two hours within the central business district to condemn the Al-Shabaab attack at the Garissa University that Killed 147 students.

University Students were in solidarity with their colleagues in Garissa massacre earlier this week where 148 students were killed, leaving scores injured while a good number have not been accounted for left many emotionally detoured.

The demonstration comes barely a day after the government announced its intention to compensate the family that lost their loved ones during the horrific attack.

Students of various Universities went to streets of Kisumu Oginga Odinga Streets over the attack that was witnessed in Garissa University where 147 lives was lost

The union made up of University Students from Nairobi University, KCA University, Aviation College, Kisumu Polytechnic and Maseno University started the demonstration from Kisumu’s Jomo Kenyatta Sports Ground heading to the County Commissioner’s Office to voice their demands out, while stopping various institutions along the way chanting unti Al-Shabaab  slogans “No more Al-Shabaab”.

The students led by the unions Secretary General and also a second year political science student in Maseno University, Fred Makajos said that they as a union want the County Government of Kisumu through the office of the County Commissioner Mr. Erastus Ekidor to assure them of the measures put in place to safeguard the students security within the various existing learning institutions within the county.

According to Lameck Apiyo, one of the Union official said that the Government and the institutions management should come clear on how to secure the learning institutions that does not leave them too vulnerable to insecurity,

the government should come out clear on the measures put in place to beef up security within various learning institutions as there still exists threats on learning institutions across the country, Lameck said.

However efforts to reach the County Commissioner for comments bared no fruit since the gate was locked in fear that the university students may disrupt the peace in the area.

Never the less, the union promised to push forth with the movement to ensure that security is adequately put in place within learning institutions to ensure the safety of its students.

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