The reality is kenya is a nation of tribes. I am not sure why we should be ashamed of it.We know with 98% certainty that Kenyans are tribal (that is what I normally use in MOAS - in 50yrs - maybe it will be 80-90%?) and I believe we can have a structured constructive engagement if we imagine tribes - as European nations - with Italians, Swedish, French, English, Irish - and EU as Kenya (state).
At the minimum the political class should be free to raise issues about their tribes.
Civil servants are by law required to be tribe-blind. Not politicians.
It will take another 500-1000 years before we form a nation called Kenya - and that will only happen when demographics would have seriously changed - with urbanization, lost of tribal language, settlements - and embrace of Kiswahili & English (maybe Sheng) - and that process will in my view take a minimum of 200yrs.
Right now you - we have to accept the reality - that we are a nation of tribes - Kalenjin nation is a reality just as Kikuyu nation. These are not idle constructs. Obviously after 500-1000 yrs continuously slow and gradually de-construction - those tribes will disappear - we already know many tribal languages of smaller tribes have disappeared - and that process will continue - until finding someone who can speak Kalenjin or Kikuyu will be hard - and that will happen in 1000yrs from now maybe.
And those that will live after us will truly be Kenyans speaking Kenyanese - living in the nation kenya. That time 95% of kenyans will be living in urban areas, will be products of inter-marriages lasting so many generations, and will not understand any language apart from Kenyanese.
Right now - we have about 2% Kenyans - and the rest swear allegiance first to their tribes. If you can still speak your tribal language - you're as tribal as Oscar - just not as sincere.
Maybe if Rotich were from his constituency. He is not. This is just deflection of individual people's crimes to the Kalenjin community.