What's going on at Kebs not strange

The recent appointment of a new Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) boss has bred suspicion.

According to the Constitution, allocation of national resources should be fair. Kenyans from different ethnic backgrounds are entitled to live and work anywhere.

But our eyebrows are raised when the appointments portray tribalism or nepotism. Why did the board allege that the appointed candidate was not among the three-presented competitors?

Such acts promise taxpayers a raw deal. This clearly shows how leaders disobey legal mechanisms of distributing human resources.

Good leadership is attributed to personal integrity. Morality and obedience to the rule of law makes one stand best. Who will citizens emulate if leaders do not demonstrate the spirit of change?

Nepotism, corruption, tribalism and disobedience to our on constitution need to be done away with. Let power and authority be exercised justly so that citizens’ trust may be sustained.

This is an era of national unity and development. Divide the national cake equally.

{Kiboye George, Maseno}

I hate to re-live the kind of stories coming from Kebs.

Now that it has a new Managing Director, what will the emergency measures to restore faith and trust in the institution be, with a suspicious persons at the helm?

It is mockery and distasteful to resurrect yesteryears’ ways of doing things, and inject an immoral viral into a well-mannered new Kenya.

{Halake Duba, via e-mail}

There should have been more transparency in the way the appointment of the new Kebs MD was done.

It does not matter that the new MD belongs to the same ethnic group as the Industrialisation Minister Henry Kosgei, who appointed him. Kenyans need not look at it that way, unless it is proven he is incompetent.

But the fact that the board said the appointee was not among the top three candidates for the position should raise eyebrows.

Kenyans wish to see more transparency in such appointments in every other Government institution. We would not like to go back to the days when appointments were pegged on one’s ethnicity.

{Imelder Otieno, Nairobi}

Who really said Kenya changed? There are instances that rules have been flouted, starting from the Kenya Airport Authority, where outgoing MD George Muhoho earmarked his successor despite resistance, but the deal was executed by picking someone from Central Kenya to replace him.

It sounds like the Kebs Board consists of a majority from one region that would have wished to have their own.

Minister Henry Kosgei was just being a Kenyan. He picks none of the three and gets one from his community for the top job.

We must not be blind to the fact that such ills started with President Kibaki himself.

In the appointment of the Central Bank of Kenya governor, he went for one from his tribe.

Most top security personnel come from Central Kenya. When a minister finds an opportunity of that sort, he has the freedom to pick from his community. If anything, he has a reference in Kibaki.

The Kebs board should just put up with Kosgey being the new MD for the next three years.

{Benjamin M Masenge, Gucha}