State appointments: It’s just politics, not merit

I am not much of a believer in coincidence. It is not a coincidence that when the opposition CORD began talk of a referendum to increase allocations of revenue to counties mid last year the government promptly allocated more monies to counties for the current financial year. It was to demonstrate that we do not need constitutional amendment to achieve such things. The people in power have the good sense to do it in and of themselves.

The recent parastatal appointments are not coincidence either, coming as they did when the push for the referendum has begun in earnest with the launch of the Okoa Kenya Bill for the amendment of the Constitution. One of the proposals therein is to cap appointments from one ethnic community to public service at 15 per cent.