School owners have been asked to hire well trained and skilled security guards to protect their facilities and students as they prepare to open for the second term next month.
The recommendation was made by the Joint Security Forces.
Authorities stated that this recommendation was made as part of the ongoing investigations into the recent spate of school attacks in some parts of the country.
Addressing the press in Kampala, Police spokesperson Fred Enanga said that police are probing attacks on 12 schools which happened last term and several suspects have been apprehended and arraigned in courts of law.
He revealed that investigations show that most of the schools that were attacked had some elements of laxity, where security guards at these schools had raw weapons such as bows and arrows yet attackers had superior weapons like guns.
He also claimed that some security guards were too old for the job, with the majority of them aged 40 to 60, and that the majority of them were also found drunk.
