IDENTIFYING KENYA'S TRIBAL GENE..

Government’s ‘tribal policy’ perpetuated by wiles of politicians is but a slap on our minds. The hard-knock reason being that government through the department of registration of persons deems right to process personal documents tribally.  Birth certificates, ID cards, passports and voter’s cards contain information that encourages tribal identification.
 
Details on parents’ home of birth, district, division and location are given priority.  This infringes on the personal right of the applicant seeking such documentation.  When one is 18 years, he/she ceases to be a personal representative of parents.  Why include parents’ personal details on documents of young applicants? Each Kenyan ought to be identified individually.
 
Consequently many grow up feeling that the parents’ home district, division and location are the best and superior than the ones they immigrate to as they seek for education, employment and settlement.  Grappling in deliberate tribal pun shall peel Kenyans one by one like an onion to nothingness. This thieving legacy that always makes us go native on our souls is like a mutating ‘bad’ gene.
 
Controversial writer, Richard Dawkins, in his book ‘Selfish Gene’, stated that ‘genes work in their best interest; they do not work in the interest of the organism carrying them’.
 
Like the gene, we selfishly turn the healthy Kenyan tree into uncomfortable chairs and stools by wittingly bringing the nation.
 
On the other hand, a law to help tackle tribalism would be an eye-opener. It should be an offence to classify and identify Kenyans on tribal identities. Culprits should be prosecuted for engaging in registration of persons, issuance of IDs, voter’s cards and unfair employment of persons on ethnic grounds.
 
Certainly tribalism is the culprit for it brings with it corruption, nepotism, cronyism, mismanagement and unequal resource allocation. It is the mother of all social and economic challenges facing Kenya today.
 
In order to bring back sobriety and help end corruption and bad governance tribalism should be fought by all means including legal.
 
Were it not for tribalism Kenyan would not have had land grabbing, tribal clashes, Goldenberg and Anglo-Leasing scandals.
It is time that we faced the reality by tackling tribalism to ease social and economic tensions even as we prepare to go to polls.
 
Regards,
Mundia Mundia Jnr.