masukuma wrote:McReggae wrote:dunkang wrote:The Butere Girls Play, Shackles of Doom, is therefore OKAY!
Why conspire to block it if 'members from those regions aren't given free cash or unga by the above mentioned leaders'.
Exactment....why block....even the NCIC audit showed the same dominace by a few tribes. why block the play???
the environment has already been poisoned.
I am asking myself - what is the motive of the play-write? A fact check by NCIC reveals that Kyuks indeed have an unfair tally (a variance of 4%) as reported in this report
http://198.38.90.109/~cohesion/images/downloads/ethnic%20diversity%20of%20the%20civil%20service.pdf However, we need to remember that the play will still be there even the reality changes. It could be published as a short story or a play for some African nation to read in future, a future where Kyuks may not be having a large number of public positions
if it is to tackle tribalism and nepotism (something that is not unique to kyuks - for reference check out the stats of the employees of the office of the prime minister) the play can be re-written so that it uses imagery and fictitious groups of people. Let him borrow a leaf from George Orwell who used a farm of animals to attack Communism and other related groupings and regimes. his writings have been timeless since they have attacked an ideology not a group of people. however if the ODM County Assembly Ward Rep.'s motive is to attack Nepotism and Tribalism in Kikuyu - he is spot on!
That document does not interpret the statistics correctly.
According to the table in page 6, Kikuyus are 17.7% of the population and they have 22.3% of civil service posts. Corresponding figures for others tribes are as follows:
Kalenjin 13.3% Vs 16.7%
Luhya 14.2% Vs 11.3%
Kamba 10.4% Vs 9.7%
Luo 10.8% Vs 9.0%
Kisii 5.9% Vs 6.8%
Meru 4.4% Vs 5.9%
Mijikenda 5.2% Vs 3.8%
Kenya Somali 6.4% Vs 2.7%
Embu 0.9% Vs 2.0%
Masai 2.2% Vs 1.5%
Taita 0.7% Vs 1.5%
Boran 0.4% Vs 1.2%
Turkana 2.6% Vs 1.0%
From these numbers, the document concludes that "The Kikuyu and the Kalenjin have a disproportionate share of civil service posts compared to their population."
While that is a factual statement, it portrays the erroneous impression that these two tribes have the largest disproportion of jobs compared to their population.
Nothing could be farther from the truth!
Looking at the figures again, it quickly emerges that while the Kikuyu and Kalenjin have exceeded their expected share of jobs by a factor of only 1.26 (DIVIDE the percent of jobs by the percent of population), the Boran have exceeded theirs by a factor of 3!
According to that data, it is the Boran who have the lion's share of jobs!
But I think the people who prepared the document were blinded by the fact that Kenya has only had Presidents from the Kikuyu and the Kalenjin tribes.