Stop This Ethnical Nonsense And Waste Of Public Resources, Kaguthi Rubbishes NCIC.
“What does ethnicity
have to do with achieving the Kenyan dream? Those who seek to ethnicise every
problem that is facing this country are taking us backwards and creating
tensions between the different tribes. Where communities are divided along ethnic lines, there is of course a
tendency of those who feel that they have been left out to get angry with those
who that are perceived to be the beneficiaries. Likewise, the jobless youth
from the tribes that are said to be the biggest beneficiaries will also fear
being discriminated against in the job search due to their origin,” said Kaguthi.
Kaguthi pointed out
that top cadre leaders were responsible for fueling ethnic hatred in the
country through what they were inseminating to the common mwananchi down.
He called on every
Kenyan of goodwill to treat such leaders with the contempt they deserved. Kaguthi
failed to comprehend why Kenya was moving to a reverse direction as the world were
uniting into commercial blocks such as the EAC, COMESA and the African Union.
“Why should anyone
use Wanjiku’s money to divide Kenyans on the basis of their tribes? America initially
was faced with a similar challenge but when they realised how profiling people
on the basis of their race was taking them backwards, they resulted to ‘merit
based’ evaluation to any opportunities that there were at their disposal. That is
why they have developed into the powerhouse we know of today. If a newborn Kikuyu
child is raised by Turkana parents to that age of 20 or 30, won’t the child not
be a Turkana? Why then are our leaders creating boundaries between us and worse
still, using our taxes to fuel hatred?” he asked.
He said that the current
ethnic problem facing the country had its roots connected to colonialism where
the British played a divide and rule card and brought about the ‘Kikuyu Bashing’.
“Now see… Every
community wants a piece of the Kikuyu. It was the same problem that befell our
Somali brothers when they were previously perceived as ‘Shiftas’ or the Muslims
were all branded ‘Al Shabaab even though they suffered the most in the hands of
the terrorists. We must work hand in hand to enlighten our people instead of polarising
the nation on stupid and childish ethnic ideologies.”
A report by released
on Monday by the NCIC indicated that tribalism, nepotism and corruption
continued to be experienced in public recruitment in national institutions
despite existing legal provisions. The Ethnic and Diversity Audit Reports of Public
Institutions showed that larger communities are overly presented compared to
the smaller ones.
NCIC Chairperson
Francis ole Kaparo noted that recruitment in counties continues to contravene
the law with only 15 counties having given more than 30% of vacancies to
members of ethnic groups not dominant there. Kaparo stated that the survey
shows that employment in County Public Service Boards is not only inequitable
but skewed towards the dominant groups in the county. It also showed that 93%
comply with the National Cohesion and Integration (NCI) Act, 2008 having
employed less than 33.3% of their staff from one ethnic group.
Kaguthi was speaking
to the press at The Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organisation
(KALRO) in Thika where about 150 chiefs from 15 counties were being taken
through a three-day sensitisation workshop on the use of technology in fighting
crime.
The chiefs were asked
to embrace the use of all the ICT platforms in their interaction with the
people as this helped to link the gap between them and the authorities and
also guaranteed appropriate response in real time.
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