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NPS says the decision of expelling pregnant police was not displinary action.[TNX]
Fifty-four police recruits, among them 18 pregnant women, have been expelled from Kiganjo Police Training College, where they have been since December 2025. Their expulsion has not only raised eyebrows but also sparked national debate. The other recruits were dismissed for various reasons: 10 were found to have criminal records, 18 were accused of presenting forged academic certificates during recruitment, and 2 reportedly used fake identification documents.
The National Police Service quickly explained that no recruit conceived while in college, and that standard tests conducted three months after recruitment detected the pregnancies. That explanation raises more questions than answers.
The National Police Service Commission recruitment advertisement states that female candidates must not be pregnant at recruitment or during the entire training period. The real question, therefore, is not whether the pregnancies occurred at Kiganjo, but how 18 pregnant women were cleared to join Kiganjo. Do the police conduct medical and pregnancy tests during their recruitment exercises? If so, why does it take months to discover that the recruits are pregnant? A pregnancy can be detected between four and six weeks after conception, and if pregnancy tests were conducted, a good number of the 18 pregnant women would have been turned away early enough. Early screening would have spared the public the cost of training these recruits.
