Greater Luweero districts fail to get female UPDF recruits

UPDF recruits go through the military drills at the recruitment centre in Luweero District on Sunday. PHOTO BY DAN WANDERA

What you need to know:

  • The UPDF Country wide exercise targets 3,000 recruits who will enroll for a nine months training for specialized units including the infantry section of the Army.
  • Lt Geofrey Sunday the spokesperson for Team 6 recuitment centre which handled Luweero, Nakaseke and Nakasongola Districts said 308 youth turned up to compete for the 31 slots for Luweero District, 108 turned from Nakasongola which had 13 slots while 104 came from Nakaseke District which was allocated 14 slots.

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The Greater Luweero Districts of Nakaseke, Luweero and Nakasongola on Sunday failed to register any single female recruit due to lack of required academic documents.
Col David Isimbwa, the team-six leader which conducted the recruitment exercise at Kasana Sports Ground in Luweero Town Council on Sunday said despite the overwhelming turnup of 516 youth for the recruitment exercise in Luweero, several of the female youths carried Uganda Certificate of Education documents for years outside the required set standard of 2014 and 2015.
According to him, others had forged documents which partly explain why the recruitment quarter for the said districts of 58 female recruits were taken by the male youth as UPDF recruits.

“ The guidelines were very clear for the UPDF recruitment exercise. Several of the female youth who turned up for this exercise did not meet the set guidelines. We had to continue with the exercise because the general turnup was overwhelming. We advised those with UACE certificates to prepare for the recruitment exercise which targets professionals and will be held at Kololo in Kampala City,” Col Isimbwa said on Sunday.

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Lt Geofrey Sunday the spokesperson for Team 6 recuitment centre which handled Luweero, Nakaseke and Nakasongola Districts said 308 youth turned up to compete for the 31 slots for Luweero District, 108 turned from Nakasongola which had 13 slots while 104 came from Nakaseke District which was allocated 14 slots.
“We registered several cases involving forgeries of academic papers. We also had pressure from parents and politicians trying to have their children and relatives go through the exercise. Our guidelines are very clear and that is what we did in Luweero,” he said.
The UPDF Country wide exercise targets 3,000 recruits who will enroll for a nine months training for specialized units including the infantry section of the Army.

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