Jobseeker Says His Brown Teeth Has Kept Him From Joining The Police Force or KDF

With the upcoming KDF recruitment, a lot of job seekers will apply for the numerous jobs advertised by the Ministry of Defence regardless of the not too good stories which marred the just concluded National Service Police Commission police recruitment.

In a recent story run by the Daily Nation leaders in Garissa decried the recruitment exercise of police officers in the area and wanted the process repeated alleging that it was marred by prejudice and favoritism.

Another young man found himself locked up at Nyeri Police Station after presenting a fake Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) certificate in Nyeri. Mr. Ndirangu is reported to have gotten the certificate from his mother and he had no idea it was fake.

In another story done by the same newspaper, it was also reported that one Charles Kamemba Nyarae collapsed and died when his daughter failed to be recruited into the police service after he had allegedly paid a Sh 300,000 bribe.

I went out to seek the opinion of Kenyans on whether they still have trust in the police recruitment and KDF recruitment and this is what they had to say:

Jonathan Maingi said that she cannot trust their recruitment since three years ago when she went through the process they disqualified her because she has discolored teeth.

“I do not understand why my teeth were brought into this yet I have seen such a police man in my home town with brown teeth. I do not trust the recruitment because I consider it unfair and demeaning,” she says.

“I trust it because my parents have money and I will get in. My mother happens to know a certain police commissioner and all she needs is just speak the right language per say and I am in,”” replies Sarah Maselo*

Andrew Wafula* on the other hand has a different story to tell.

“When I got to the recruitment centre last year, I was so excited and ready with my papers. I passed all the physical exercises and before I was selected an officer pointed out a miniature scratch on my left arm and said I was unsuitable since I was physically ‘unfit’. I went home dejected and feeling cheated.” He concludes that, “I will never go for recruitment again since I believe they will find another flaw on me,” Wafula says.

Hamisi Abdi* is bitter about the recruitment and shows no trust for it.

“My younger brother always wanted to be in the police force and he would always work out to keep fit and when he tried his luck this year he did not even go through the first step,” laments Mr. Abdi

“When I went for the recruitment, the officer in charge dismissed me and said ‘people from your tribe do not do well in this field’  Now I treat the processes with a lot of distrust because I was disqualified along tribal lines,” says Collins Obisu*

What’s your take on these recruitment processes? Do you trust them?

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