Africa-Press – Tanzania. THE 2022 Form Six graduates are obliged to start reporting at various National Service (JKT) camps in the country from today, ready for the compulsory three –month training to commence this month.
The Head of Administration of the National Service, Brigadier General Hassan Mabena disclosed early this week that all 2022 Form Six leavers were required to join National Service and should report to various JKT camps located all over the country from 3rd to 17th June this year ready for the training.
He further added that all the recruits who are supposed to join the training as per the law requirement will find their respective camps where they are required to report on the website, www.jkt.go.tz where they find all the required information before they report to their respective camps.
He named the 19 camps which will host the recruits as JKT Rwamkoma (Mara), JKT Msange (Tabora), JKT Ruvu, Kibiti (Coast region), JKT Mpwapwa, Makutupora (Dodoma), JKT Mafinga (Iringa), JKT Mlale (Ruvuma), JKT Mgambo, Maramba (Tanga), JKT Makuyuni and Oljoro in Arusha.
Others are JKT Bulombora, Kanembwa, Mtabila (Kigoma), JKT Itaka (Songwe), JKT Luwa Milundikwa (Rukwa) and JKT Nachingwea in Lindi Region.
Brigadier General Mabena also unveiled that all the graduates with physical disabilities are required to report at the JKT Ruvu camp at Mlandizi in Coast region because the camp has special facilities for people with disabilities.
Apart from announcing the commencement of the compulsory training, Brigadier General Mabena said the voluntary training will be announced later for those who wish to join the training.
The National Service which is operating under a set of laws passed by the parliament ‘National Service Act No. 16 of 1964 (Re 2002), requires all youths graduating from secondary schools and colleges to join the army for military training and other national service activities.
Through the National Service, Tanzania is envisaged to be a country whose youths are well nurtured so as to constitute a productive part of the society which has a high sense of confidence, self-discipline, patriotism, brotherhood, cooperation and responsibility.
Apart from that, the youth are equipped with requisite knowledge, skills and culture values which will enable them to contribute positively to the social-economic development as well as to the defence and security of the Nation.
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