Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two private security guards are in police custody in Mbale city on allegations of stagging an illegal roadblock. They are Andrew Okello and Albert Omageni, from security Uganda company and residents of Nasenyi cell in Dokho ward, Mbale City Industrial division. Rogers Taitika, the Elgon …
Read More »Police warns business owners against diverting security guards
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police have warned business owners and individuals against diverting security guards and escorts to duties they are not meant for. Police agencies such as Crime Intelligence (CI), Flying Squad Unit (FSU), and Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) have listed diversion of guards as one …
Read More »Police raise concern over private security guards conniving with robbers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police have raised concern over the increasing incidents of security guards conniving with robbers to terrorize companies they are meant to protect. The Flying Squad Unit, Crime Intelligence, and Crime Investigators probing the rampant incidents of attacks at fuel stations, supermarkets, and goods in …
Read More »Private security firms on the spot for confiscating employee National IDs
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private Security Organisations (PSOs) are under the spotlight for confiscating the National Identity cards of their employees. “My monthly salary is Shillings 160,000. I recently got a better paying job where they needed a National ID but my current employers refused to give it to me. …
Read More »Covid-19 kills 15 private security guards, grounds 100 more
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 15 private security guards have succumbed to the new wave of Covid-19 in the last few weeks, according to The Uganda Private Security Association-TUPSA chairman Grace Matsiko. Matsiko in an interview with Uganda Radio Network said the new Covid-19 wave has ravaged various …
Read More »Two security guards shot dead in Kampala
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two security guards have been killed by unknown gunmen in Kampala. The guards have been identified as Godfrey Wapukurwa, 50 years and Kennedy Andama, 48 years attached to Security Group Africa-SGA. They were guarding a disputed land in Wankoko zone on Spring road in …
Read More »Two security guards arrested over murder, robbery
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two security guards attached to Senaca security company have been arrested over the alleged murder and robbery of an unspecified amount of money in Mukono. Deputy Kampala Metropolitan police spokesman Luke Owoyesigyire said the guards whose names have been concealed are suspected to have participated …
Read More »Police arrests SGA security guards over stolen gun
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Old Kampala police has arrested two SGA security guards over a stolen gun. Ambrose Asasira and Ivan Elulu were arrested on Wednesday morning after they claimed that their gun had been stolen by thugs. The duo were guarding Salaama petrol station in Namungoona, Lubaga …
Read More »Two private security guards arrested over UGX 100m robbery
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have arrested two security guards suspected to have robbed 100 million Shillings from a businessman they were guarding in Kamwokya, a suburb of Kampala. The two guards identified as Alex Abok and Anthony Ayor, attached to Tight Security Company Limited were arrested from …
Read More »137 stranded Ugandans return from Afghanistan
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Some of the Ugandans who have been stranded in Afghanistan since the emergence of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) returned on Saturday evening. Majority of the 137 who returned were private security guards in Afghanistan. They arrived at 5:50pm aboard a flight operated by Egypt Air. Shortly …
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