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    "content": "As I mentioned earlier, we have communities that have difficulties attaining this height. We have not seen forces compensating this requirement in any way. We only know that one of the very first things that the people in the forces do is to take you through that height requirement. If you are not able to attain that requirement of height, whatever else that you may have qualified or academic qualifications, it becomes immaterial. Whether you could run becomes immaterial. Whether your heart beat is as required also becomes immaterial. In essence, the first thing a recruit had to attain was height requirement. The over-emphasis on this requirement is really becoming a problem. It is discriminative. It has denied our young people opportunities to join our various disciplined forces. It has also been used by others in a corrupt manner to deny many Kenyans opportunity to work in the forces. It is important that we do away with it. We also see some people in the force who do not meet those requirements in the forces. We have some who are way below the 5ft 3”, 5ft 8” and 5ft 9” height requirement. It is important that we also help them not to feel guilty because we can quickly say something happened for them to be serving in the forces. If that was a requirement, what is it that they did that made them qualify? It is important that we do away with this requirement because it has already been abused by having people in the forces while others have been denied opportunity to serve in the forces. It is important that we do away with it. People we represent in our constituencies have raised this issue many times. It is important that we firmly address this requirement and do away with it because our Constitution does not allow discriminative tendencies."
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