The National Youth Service recruitment exercise for servicemen and women has raised concerns from the residents of Kiogoro who highlighted a lack of fairness in the exercise.
The exercise, which took place on Friday morning at the Kiogoro divisional headquarters, attracted up to 2,000 youths who turned up to be enlisted but only 160 youths were absorbed.
According to one youth who was only identified as Jane, the information was communicated much earlier than usual to some few individuals who have close relationships to the recruiting officials, thus giving them an upper-hand.
Some of the youths also had to go deep into their pockets to be considered which heralded a lot of complaints from the residents.