2018 marked the third anniversary of the Garissa University attack that was staged by Somalia-based terrorist group Al-Shabaab in 2015.
The first and second anniversaries were commemorated but the institutions' administration balked at the idea of commemorating the third.
According to the university's vice-chancellor Ahmed Osman Warfa, the commemoration would bring back bad memories that would rather be forgotten.
"We are not doing any event this time round; it only reminds us of that fateful day," Prof. Warfa told a mainstream publication.
At least one hundred and forty-seven students lost their lives in the deadly attack which gripped the Kenyan public for weeks on end.
It came in the context of Kenya's military involvement in war-torn Somalia that has been in the throes of civil strife since the fall of the Siad Barre regime.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has maintained that Kenya and his administration will not yield to the terrorist group's demands that KDF forces be pulled out of Somalia.
Since the attack, the government has moved to bolster security at the university including erecting watch-towers and increasing the number of security personnel.