A 21-year-old youth from Mavoko, Machakos County, has written a letter to the Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet calling for his help to be recruited into the police force.
Speaking to hivisasa.com in Athi River town on Sunday, Bonface Malila said he decided to write the letter after exploiting all available ways to reach the IG over his plight.
"I decided to write this note to the Inspector General of Police after I exploited all ways to physically reach him over my plight," he said. "I wish he understands my interest as a loyal Kenyan."
Malila said his intention with the letter was to ask Boinnet to help him get recruited into the forces having participated in the exercise for the last four years unsuccessfully.
"I want to be a regular police officer, I better forfeit marrying but become a police officer even if it means serving freely without being paid any salary by the government. I therefore call on the IG to offer me direct recruitment into the forces," said Malila.
Malila said he fears he might not live to see his lifelong dream if the Inspector General of Police does not intervene in the matter, arguing he had been trying since he cleared his KCSE in 2012 in vain.
He said he kept traveling to Makueni, his home district to try his luck whenever there were calls for recruitment exercises of the Kenya Police, Kenya Defense Force and Kenya Prisons but was disqualified in the process.
"Sir, I have never in my age taken cigarettes or a sip of beer and will never dare to do so. I successfully completed my form four course in the year 2012 though I never went to college," the letter reads in part.
Malila said he is the first born in a family of four. Their mother, he added, is a single mother.
He said he had written to the police chief in full confidence hoping that his innermost problem of being a police officer would be fully solved.
"Consider me Sir for I have written in full confidence and hope that my innermost problem of aspiring to be a police officer will be fully solved if only you will admit to offer me direct recruitment to join my brothers and sisters who recently reported in various police training colleges," he says in the letter.