I personally do not see how Kibaki is a tribalist. You work with people loyal to you and like it happens everywhere else in the world, you choose who you want to work with. Like the case of advisers, he has had people like Kivutha Kibwana, he had Tuju, Nick Wanjohi, these were the people who were in his team for reelection and he thus had to retain them in his advisory team. As per state house, the same applies; PPS, state house comptroller, I do not have the numbers of the people who work there and their tribes.
During his first term in office, he decided to give ministers freedom to run their ministries. Like one Njeru Githae said, the ministers have and had the authority of who they get to work with. It’s the people who were in your campaign team, you went to school with, and have business relations and all. It’s a cycle of the cliché surrounding the guys up there. Not wanting to touch on Raila coz this is not the topic, he has Carole Omondi as the man in charge …………., he had people like Miguna as adviser and if he was to form the next Gov. He would name guys he has worked with before, friends, business associates and the like.
If Kibaki was to be branded as a tribalist, it would be just in the places he has had direct appointment, not appointments that have to go through parliament and the like. The issue that comes at hand here is when people think that their area gets development coz the prezzy comes from there. If this was not the case, areas like central would not be like they are now since Moi was in power for 24 yrs. By the way I used to hear ati if you go to some places in Baringo, he had built roads where nowadays there are more goats then cars using them.
People have to stop the habit of always blaming tribalism on everything. Many rich people out there do not see each other as Kikuyu, Luo or Maasai they see each other as business associates where the issue is to make money. In Kenya it’s just the tribe of the rich and the tribe of the poor; point in question is what happened in 2007 where fracas occurred only where the poor live. In most posh places where people live harmoniously and forgot their tribal affiliations nothing happened.
