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EACC accuses county officials of sharing slots in police recruitment

Residents of Tana River Country demonstrate along Hola Town streets last Thursday to protest against recent police recruitment exercise. [PHOTO: HASSAN BARISSA/STANDARD]

County officials shared out slots reserved for police recruits even before recruitment began, an investigation by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has revealed.

The anti-corruption body also says that to conceal corruption, officials bungled the exercise at the medical stage in several recruiting centres.

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