Discriminative measures a recipe for revolution

Not so long ago, I was privileged to be in a civic awareness forum where I overheard groups of the Kenyan electorate debate the merits and demerits of a unitary state. The view that Kenya would be better of balkanised than united as is the case today seemed to tilt the plane of these discussions.

Reason? Discrimination, favoritism, disjointed and competing interests amongst Kenyan tribes, communities and individuals. This is compounded by the fact that groups of people were been lumped together as tribes during the colonial times leave alone a conglomeration 42 plus tribes to form a nation.