Security teams in Kirinyaga County have urged school managements to focus on having trained security guards to man their gates.
The county Criminal Investigations Officer Jason Mworia said schools need to now focus on having proper security after Kibirigwi Secondary School was broken into in the month of September.
He also said that the school administrators need to also reduce having solid cash with them.
“The criminals who broke into Kibirigwi Girls were looking for money. I urge school managements to focus on having trained security guards to man their gates and also look for alternatives on how they can keep money and not have solid money to avert such an incident,” said Mworia, pegging the maximum a school should have in cash at Ksh20,000.
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Mworia suggested that clear CCTV cameras should be installed to give proper images in case there is an incident.
In September, Kibirigwi Secondary deputy and a teacher who were in the compound were roughed up by a group of thugs who managed to get into the school compound after they injured the watchman, who later on died while being rushed to hospital.
They then proceeded to the where the safe was, broke it but they did not find any money. Afterwards they escaped using the deputy’s vehicle and abandoned it in Murang’a
By Jane Mugambi
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