Army Deputy Commander, Zyeele, says Officer Cadet selection exercise only for young men, women

The Officer Cadet candidate selection is only meant for young men and women to be trained purely as infantry officers.

This is according to the Zambia Army Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff, Major General Geoffrey Choongo Zyeele.

Zyeele said candidates would be selected based on merit and that they should be in possession of a valid grade 12 certificate as stipulated in the advertisement.

The Deputy Army Commander said this at Kohima barracks in Kabwe on Monday where he addressed Officers Selection Board (OSB) members that no tertiary certificate should be accepted as a basis of selection.

The OSB members were appointed to conduct the exercise of selectIng candidates from those short listed to undergo Officer Cadet training selection process.

“Upon completion of the training, the officers will be posted to various infantry units where they will remain as infantry Officers and no one will be allowed to change from the corp’s to any other,” Zyeele said.

He explained that candidates who wished to join the Zambia Army as specialists should wait until an advertisement as regards the same was made available through the media.

He said the successful candidates would later be called upon to undergo Officer Cadet training and eventually graduate as Zambia Army commissioned infantry Officers.

OSB is a meticulous process through which candidates who aspire to join Zambia Army as Commissioned Officers have to undergo before they commence actual Officer Cadet training process.

Zyeele further directed the board members to ensure that the selection process was conducted according to the established rules and on merit.

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