18 MORE RECRUITS SACKED FOR ILLEGAL RECRUITMENT

MBABANE – The 2017 army recruitment exercise continues to be marred by controversy as more and more recruits are being sent back home for having been admitted illegitimately.

Latest reports indicate that a further 18 were sent packing yesterday after investigations uncovered that they did not go through the recruitment process.
One distraught parent who spoke to the Times SUNDAY following the return of his son yesterday disclosed that in order for her child to be admitted to the army she paid E50 000 to a senior army official.

The son did not go through the normal process where aspirant soldiers were made to undergo fitness training in their respective constituencies where one male and one female who outshone them all were recruited to join the army.

“My son had already spent three months undergoing training with the army and I am shocked that he has now been sent back home. We had to pay E50 000 for him to be admitted to the army. We were given a bank account to deposit the money into. The man who gave us the bank account is amongst the army’s top brass,” the mother said.

However, she claimed to have forgotten the identity of the army official as well as the account number but remembers that it is held with First National Bank.
“I got to know the army official through a relative whom I had informed of the need for my son to get employment. We were in a desperate situation,” she said.

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