Uproar as youths are turned away From NYS Recruitment for having tattoos.
Uproar as youths are turned away From NYS Recruitment for having tattoos: The recruitment of 15,000 volunteer servicemen and women to join the National Youth Service (NYS) continues across the country, most youths in Thika, Kiambu County turned up for the exercise at Thika stadium on Tuesday.
However, nearly a third of them were turned away for having tattoos on their bodies, despite meeting academic qualifications.
Speaking to the media, Peterson Mwangi, who was among those disqualified because of the tattoo expressed his disappointment, explaining that he got the ‘body art’ while in secondary school, when it was fashionable.
Other candidates were disqualified because of errors in their national identity cards, most of which read their area of birth being far away from the recruitment centre.
Netizens have reacted;
Rooney wrote,”By the way where is the relationship with having a tattoo and being unfit?
Majority of greatest world class footballers have their bodies covered with tattoes(kutoka miguu,mgongo,shingo hadi mikono)….Just check Messi, Neymar and most south American athletes.”
Another Netizen wrote,”Another way to tell the youths, we don’t need you. Discrimination of the highest order. Most of those youths need direction, someone to show them a way that heads to the future. Our country is falling.”
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