It is a big let down even in the big organisation the same thing happens

can those figures be put up against data from the population census?

Almost all the traffic police officers I meet are Kao.I wonder why.

Liar,, liar. The PM's office has 22% luos and 21% Kikuyus, is that what you call "almost fully luos"

On the other hand the office of the president has 361 out of 373 kikuyu's, a whopping 96%.

Source http://www.standardmedia...00032707&cid=4&

Now why don't you go ahead and tell us the stanadrd is gutter blah.. blah

IMHO, this seems to me to be diversionary of the Kibunja Commission. The percentages presented don't seem to be drawn from the right places:

1. The figures of ethnic composition should be tallied not against plain Census figures but from college, university, poly and high school graduates this would give a better indication of how the distribution against "qualification".
2. The peculiar preferences for non civil service jobs by certain ethnic groups should also inform such opinions, e.g Asians are not known to be keen on military/police jobs. Neither do they prefer to serve in professional levels such as accounting, law, medicine, engineering for the gova.
3. Our collective villager mentality is evident in all sectors of the economy not only the civil service.

This is not to deny the inequities prevalent in the civil service but to demand for a thorough and scientific diagnosis of the problem. This is more so because, in an era where the need to instill a meritocratic culture in the public service is imperative we must guard against unproven bias.

At the performance level, the perception that one comes from a dominant group works against the morale of the specific person. E.g if one is a Kikuyu and possesses the requisite qualification for an overseas posting, and an Elmolo colleague with a lower qualification also applies for the same post why should the Kikuyu fellow be denied the position just because of his tribe??

Affirmative action has to be engineered at the the earliest opportunity e.g at school distribution, and equal opportunity initiatives for perceived marginalized groups. The existence of better opportunities for career, educational, personal and professional growth in a skewed manner in Kenya should be corrected. Because if we behave like the colonialist and "preserve" some tribes for the sake of tourism and "preserving their culture" we don't expect the same tribe to be equally represented in not only the civil service but also in the formal employment sector.