This is a polite reminder that the D and D+ scores you see at the bottom of those lists, and who nobody is throwing up and down in the air in celebration, will join the Kenya Defence Forces in the January 2022 recruitment. They will train at RTS for only nine months before being posted to their units. There, they will have a job that is permanent and pensionable (they become pensionable after serving only 12 years), a lifetime medical cover and no-limit treatment at the Defence Forces Memorial Hospital (which is reputed to have some of the best facilities, doctors and medicine), post-retirement cover under the Defence Forces Medical Insurance Scheme (DEFMIS) and tax-free shopping at Defence Forces Canteen Organisation (DEFCO). Their service ID will also give them free pass on the roads and immunity from police harassment, as well as no-queue status at public service points.
Meanwhile, the ones we are throwing up and down as we sing "Amenitendeaaaa!", will finish their degrees, print many CVs and buy a tonne of brown envelopes, walk the tarmac like Limuru donkeys, beg for jobs and basically become experts at saying "serikali ingilia kati".
This life has a strange formula.