Ex-police officers turned away aftter appearing for fake job advert at GSU headquarters
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Hundreds of ex-police officers turned away at the GSU headquarters after appearing for nonexistent job advert
Hundreds of ex-police officers turned away at the GSU headquarters after appearing for nonexistent job advert.
A social media post had tempted the jobseekers, who were primarily discharged and deserters, to reintegrate into the National Police Service.
The former police officers arrived at the facility as early as 7 a.m. on Friday, prepared with paperwork, and set up camp at the front gate.
However, they were later asked to leave when it became apparent that they had responded to a false job advert.
The viral post required them to report to the paramilitary base for recruitment.
“If you know of any police officer alifutwa kazi (dismissed) or deserted and is willing kurudi kazi afike Ruaraka kesho treat as urgent if willing, GSU hq,” the post read.
Police spokesperson Resila Onyango said they had already flagged the post warning those targeted against falling for it.
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“We saw the post and issued an alert asking the ex-officers to ignore it,” she said.
“Police do not communicate in such a manner and if at all their services were required we would have issued a signal to the effect.”
The job scam comes at a time when the planned nationwide police recruitment has been rescheduled to early next year.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kindiki Kithure made the revelation when he appeared before the MPs on September 30.
“We shall be conducting the recruitment early next year…we cannot have it this year, we are late,” Kindiki said without revealing more details.
The CS was responding to a question from a member of the National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity about the exercise and plans in place to address the rampant cases of bribery during recruitment.
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