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Youths fail to join Kenya Defence Forces due to missing teeth

KDF officer check for potential candidates who are to join the forces at Migori sports ground on 20th February 2018. (Photo:Caleb Kingwara/Standard)

Most of the youths who turned up for the Kenya Defence Forces recruitment in Igembe North, Meru county were turned away due to decayed and missing teeth.

Senior recruiting officer Lieutenant colonel Stephen Kiago said most of the youths who turned up at Murungene Primary School from the three divisions of Laare, Mutuati and Nduriri had either missing teeth or decayed teeth.

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