Brown teeth keep aspiring KDF soldiers off recruitment

A Kenya Defense Force soldier examines documents of some of the recruits who turned up for KDF recruitment at Kihoto Grounds in Naivasha. The event was marked with low turnout as it emerged that women were not being recruited in the area. PHOTO: Antony Gitonga

NAKURU: Once beaten twice shy. That was the silent message that hundreds of jobless youth in Naivasha sent to the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) when they failed to turn up for its recruitment drive in the town.

KDF recruitment officers were taken aback when, unlike in other places, only a handful people turned up at Kihoto grounds for the exercise.