URN.Fredrick Kiiza Kayanja, the Chief Warden Mt. Elgon Park, told journalists during the recruitment at Mbale City Stadium that many of the people who turned up lacked a National ID card and valid academic papers, which was the basis for their disqualification.
Hundreds of youths seeking to join the Uganda Wild Life Authority-UWA forces from the recruitment center Mbale City were turned away over lack of, and forged National Identity Cards.Others were turned away on health grounds.
The authority which conducted the recruitment in Mbale City stadium sought to recruit only 120 rangers from the sub-regions of Sebei, Bukedi and Bugisu in the exercise that started on Monday but many applicants were turned away when recruitment officers sieved them out over forged or lack of National Identity Cards, medical forms and Uganda Certificate of Education-UCE pass slips. Some were over age.
Fredrick Kiiza Kayanja, the Chief Warden Mt. Elgon Park, told journalists during the recruitment at Mbale City Stadium that many of the people who turned up lacked a National Identity Card and valid academic documents, which was a basis for their disqualification.
He said the exercise was highly competitive but the lack of critical documents like an ID and academic documents helped them to zero to the 120 which they wanted.
“We had many exercises we undertook to reduce on the number of applicants like registration in time so those who entered late and the ones who never had the requisite academic documents and valid IDs were not considered,” he said.
The Uganda Wild Life Authority is conducting a recruitment across the country seeking to recruit 850 able bodied rangers.
The force wants to have candidates holding an “O” Level Certificate of Education with at least a credit in English language or Mathematics obtained not more than 6 years ago.
Kiiza noted that, the recruitment is mainly targeting the youth between 20 and 30 years, who will help to reinforce operations and security in the game parks and conservation areas, adding that inadequate human resource is affecting the management of the wildlife-protected areas.
Moses Nabende, one of the recruits who was turned away told URN that he lost his original National Identity card which is why he had turned up for recruitment with a ‘duplicate’ one but he was denied chance.
