Mr Hassan recently stirred the hornet’s nest with some obvious home truths on domination of key and strategic national institutions and installations by officers handpicked from President Kibaki’s ethnic bastion.
During the Moi kleptocracy, one could be jailed for possessing some tract, “Moi’s security home-boys”, that identified key officers in the police, military, provincial administration, and national Intelligence who hailed from the environs of President Moi’s village, and the general cluster of the Kalenjin conglomerate.
President Kibaki obviously learnt a lesson from his predecessor, and also sought to replicate the Kenyatta state, by packing the national security and provincial administration machinery, and other key government ministries and departments, with bosses who can hold official meetings in the Kikuyu mother-tongue.
Those are self-evident truths that only an ostrich would dispute. But then Mr Hassan steps way off the mark when he suggests that all Kikuyus should, therefore, be barred from public office.
Mr Hassan is not just a human rights commissioner, but he also chairs the National Police Service Commission panel.
When he takes to the soapbox to declare, even before the panel sits to go through the applications, that the next police chief must not be a Kikuyu, then he is exhibiting no more sensitivity and tact than the aforementioned politicians who have a reflexive phobia for Somalis and Muslims.
Mr Hassan actually disqualifies himself from sitting on the panel that will interview candidates for Inspector-General of Police.
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