Equal representation of all tribes in all sectors. Is this really possible. What if we said that the tyre businesses and panel beating businesses are dominated by people from certain tribes. What are we to do about this??

The road between Gilgil and Nyahururu is full of private schools. I am sure most of the students there are from a certain tribe. These kids have for years been unequally populating our public and private universities. A B.com class at the University of Nairobi does not have an equal representation of our tribes. PwCs and Deloittes and KPMGs don't have equal representation of tribes.

So what are we to do??? Iko Chida!!

It was only a matter of time before the see no evil, hear no evil brigade showed up on the thread!

Seems you are missing the bigger picture here. All of your comparisons are private entities not goverment parastatals that should have equal/near fair representation.

kusadikika katika kuchangia kwa mada hii haujasadikika ki mawazo.

When will we start evaluating people according to their expertise instead of tribes or regional balance? Is it the tribe that receives the salary? Who has ever gone to a hospital in pain and asked for a doc from their tribe?

That is what coalition politics (siasa ya nusu mkate) is all about. My ministry, my parastatals and my people, your ministry, your parastatals and your people. Take care of your people and I take care of mine. Kimunya, Nyongo, Ngilu and others are no exception

Do you have actual proof showing that Kimunya's tribal appointees are the best qualified to lead the perenially under achieving KPA.

We can see the tribal angle very clearly, why don't you now demonstrate their superior quals. Ama its in their second names.

@muchr we are following the law, dont be petty with qualifications. a state institution shall not have > 30% employees from the same tribe. bas case closed

That law is not practical because it brings about discrimination. Will we fire doctors at KNH to ensure that the 42 tribes are represented? It so happens that those who aspire to be doctors are from about 5 tribes...what about the other 37? Qualifications is what matters this tribal balance bla bla is just nonsense. Then it gets worse when they start profiling the villages that one came from and where they got married...nkt!!!

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IMO, the drafters of the constitution were very well meaning in imputing the 30% rule on public appointments. However, there was no mention of merit nor practicality of its implementation. For instance if we profiled the universities enrollment today, I guess 5 tribes will dominate 85% of the places. Secondly, if we were look at the relative economic (read GDP) contribution of the tribes then we'd see a similar correlation. the top 5 would dominate again.

I submit, that this balancing act is a fallacy as it assumes that the tribe benefits from the appointment of one man or woman from its own. @Machr, the salary goes to the individual. So it is only the competition at the highest level (political elites) that fuels this pugnacious feeling that ethnic appointments are necessarily beneficial to the entire ethnic group.

That said, it is imperative that we correct what went wrong, by giving opportunities for advancement to the so called "marginalzed" groups so that 20 year from today the debate about appointment revolves around merit and not ethnicity. These opportunities may come in form of subsidized education and affirmative action to ensure that the groups that feel left out have an opportunity to catch up and not mere ethnic elites/chieftains who benefit in the name of entire groups.