Defence Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya has recently announced plans to change the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) recruitment system to curb fraud and ensure equitable representation.
Speaking before the Senate, CS Tuya revealed that fraudsters have been deceiving the public with fake recruitment notices and impersonating senior military officers.
“Some time late last year we got a fully fledged notification of recruitment with all the logos of the KDF and the Ministry [of Defence] published out there, and we had no such recruitment going on. Actually, we have Kenyans masquerading as generals out there with full uniform, full ranks and the like,” she noted.
CS Soipan Tuya announces plan to change KDF recruitment system. Photo: Courtesy.
Tuya went on to note that the Defense Council is working on a more secure and transparent recruitment system.
“The defense council, which I chair, is currently working on a watertight system of recruitment because one of the key principles of national security is that the recruitment of the national security organs must reflect the diversity of Kenyans and must be in equitable proportions,” she added.
According to Tuya, the new recruitment system aims to fix the dents in the KDF recruitment process, which conmen regularly take advantage of.
This comes weeks after Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen announced that the government will leverage technology in the next police recruitment exercise.
CS Murkomen had detailed that there were ongoing talks with the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) on how technology can be used to enhance transparency in recruitment.
He added that the technology to be deployed will eliminate situations where Kenyans are conned by individuals purporting to sell slots to the recruits.
