East African Business Week (Kampala)
Stephen Nuwagira
5 November 2007
Kampala — Uganda-based security systems provider, Sekanyolya Systems is moving into the new markets that have been created as a result of the expanded East Africa.
The company has just opened a branch operations office in the Burundi capital, Bujumbura. Already, the company has presence in the Rwanda market.
Back home, Sekanyolya Systems has just finalised work one of its most challenging contracts - deploying of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in and around Kampala ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this month.
Private security service is a US$100 million industry annually and it is growing. Kampala alone has over 100 registered companies but security systems providers like Sekanyolya compliment the guarding services.
Government's deployment of CCTV cameras on the streets of Kampala as a security check saw Sekanyolya supply and deploy the hi-tech facilities. The company had previously provided CCTV surveillance cameras to a few high profile clients in the city.
A CCTV camera records visuals of an entire area it has been deployed and the recorded videotape can be played to show what was captured.
Government security agencies monitor the cameras from a video control room and instantly alert patrol units where there is trouble.
Mr. Livingstone Seruyange, Sekanyolya's marketing manager said installing CCTV cameras in the Kampala city has been one of the company's biggest challenges, but adds that it has exposed their capabilities to the outside world in handling big projects.
"The public is now aware that local companies like us are capable of delivering on such big projects and that is why we think we can expand to the region," Seruyange said.
Sekanyola also provides security systems like alarm sensors, electric sensing, razor wire, surveillance cameras (CCTV), burglary alarms, intercoms, car alarms, automatic gates among others.
Seruyange said the company has 15 years of experience under its belt, experience that will stand them well in their expansion plans.
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