University students now want a monument erected in various major towns in memory of their fallen 148 counterparts in a terrorist attack in Garissa last week.
They said these monuments should be in major streets of major towns such as Garissa, Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa, Nakuru, Eldoret, Nyeri, Kisii and Machakos as a reminder of the their fallen comrades.
The students were from universities including Maseno, Mt Kenya, Great Lakes, Kenyatta University, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agricultural Technology (JKUAT), the University of Nairobi, Kisii University, Kenya College of Accountancy (KCA) and Nairobi Aviation.
The students who were expressing solidarity with their comrades injured in last week's attack matched the streets of Kisumu waving placards and chanting anti-Al Shabaab slogans.
"This monument will be a constant reminder for Kenyans and mostly students on how we lost our colleagues in the most brutal way," said Kisumu County Students Union Secretary General Fred Makajos.
He proposed Taifa Park for Kisumu and Uhuru Park for Nairobi and alternatively in major universities as good places to erect the monuments.
The students also called on the national government to deploy security in various institution even if the fast phase is having officers in big and largely populated universities in the country.
"We left our homes alive hoping to get valid certificates in these higher learning institutions, but now we some of us are going home in caskets. This is unacceptable and therefore security for students should not be debatable," said Makajos.