Naivas Supermarket yesterday closed down its Garissa branch.
Speaking to the Star on the phone, the branch marketing manager Willy Kimani said the closure was as a result of security concerns.
"The security chiefs have been very supportive. However, we had to make a business decision and shut down the supermarket," he said.
Kimani said some of the goods have been ferried back to Nairobi and will be taken to other stores.
He could not, however, quantify how much loss the supermarket chain will incur following the branch closure. They supermarket opened its Garissa branch doors mid last year.
The chain pinned a note on the door in which said "we have closed temporarily".
Lorries could be seen parked outside with workers busy loading goods in them.
Meanwhile, Northeastern education sector could be headed for a major crisis following the Garissa University College terror attack in which 147 people were killed and 79 injured.
Garissa education officer Noor Ibrahim said the attack has badly affected the education sector reeling from the effects of Mandera terror attack last year that saw several teachers from outside the region refuse to report back to work citing insecurity.
He said a big per cent of those killed in the massacre were taking education courses.
“Most of the students in the university were undertaking teaching practice in several public schools in Garissa. The education standards had really improved as a result of this,” he said.
Ibrahim said there was an average of four teachers at any one given time in each secondary school.
Over 50 public school teachers who spoke to the Star on condition of anonymity, gave the government one month ultimatum to transfer them failure to which they will abandon the profession altogether.
“Time and again the government has assured us of our security. But as things stand, that is far from the truth,” said one teacher from Garissa Primary School.
They cited an incident where a secondary school teacher at Hagadera refugee camp was shot and killed by al Shabaab two weeks ago and the issue was downplayed.
A parent with two boys at Garissa and Sankuri secondary schools said the two institutions were closed hurriedly following the Garissa university terror attack.
He said that the boys had sat for only three papers for their end-term examinations when the schools were closed.
“If this is the direction the education sector is going, then we are headed for the Dark Ages,” the parent said.