A number of Kiambu youth who turned up for the ongoing KDF recruitment were disqualified due to poor dental hygiene.
A number of the prospects were found to have had missing teeth, others had stained teeth while a couple of them were rejected for having dental diseases.
Kiambu Recruiting officer Lt. Col. Magandi also observed that low turnouts were experienced in the exercise unlike in the past years.
He expressed how impressed he was that they had not turned away any youth over drunkenness as compared to the high number of cases they experienced last year.
"When we came here we were told that we would find so many young drunkards but I have not experienced a single case," the Lieutenant told Citizen.
He also stated that ladies were locked out of the recruitment this time because there were many female recruits during the last exercise.
"We have to balance the gender. That is sometimes we choose more boys than girls," He explained
The dental formula is one among the many qualifications that recruiting officers use to disqualify potential recruits. One is required to have all 32 teeth, strong and healthy.
This is because the forces view teeth as personal weapons which can be used as the last resort when all other weapons are not within their vicinity.
The recruitment exercise that started in Nov.19,2018, will roll out for a month and will be completed on Dec.19,2018.
The recruiting officers are targeting 3,000 recruits this time. Low turnouts have however been experienced throughout the counties.
