It's high time we went the lottery way in allocating public sector jobs

A youth takes part in a past police recruitment exercise. Certain big tribes are known to dominate the police force and other disciplined forces. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

There is an annual ritual where the Public Service Commission shares statistics on the number of government jobs taken by various Kenyan tribes, nowadays called communities.

The data shows the percentage of tribes in the civil service against their percentage in the general population.