{"id":2574,"date":"2014-06-13T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T03:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2014-06-13T10:39:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T03:39:41","slug":"general-karangi-says-people-with-good-grades-do-not-make-good-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/general-karangi-says-people-with-good-grades-do-not-make-good-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"General Karangi says people with good grades do not make good soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s Chief of the Defence Forces Julius Karangi has cast doubts on intellectuals joining the military.<\/p>\n<p>Karangi says people with good grades do not make good soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Karangi said most people who score grade B and are enlisted in the army continue to pursue their studies instead of concentrating on military duties.<\/p>\n<p>He said the military opts to recruit people with lower grades who can dedicate their lives to military work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of enlisting candidates who will start seeking time off to go to the university, we opt to recruit those with minimum grades,\u201d he said on his Facebook page&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kenya-today.com\/news\/shock-karangi-says-kdf-may-recruit-dunderheads-bright-recruits-good-soldiers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s Chief of the Defence Forces Julius Karangi has cast doubts on intellectuals joining the military. Karangi says people with good grades do not make good soldiers. Karangi said most people who score grade B and are enlisted in the army continue to pursue their studies instead of concentrating on military duties. He said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[300,250],"tags":[258,256,4695,609,610,4688,430,611,257,254],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-east-africa","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-julius-karangi","tag-kdf","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas-chief-of-the-defence-forces-julius-karangi","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}