15 December 2011<\/p>\n
A human rights official was asked by the Kenyan government to resign on Wednesday after calling President Mwai Kibaki’s rule an “unacceptable institutionalisation of ethnicity.”<\/p>\n
Hassan Omar Hassan, a commissioner with the state-backed Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, last month wrote a newspaper commentary criticising Kibaki’s record.<\/p>\n
“Apart from some expanded roads with fly-overs and an economic growth index, Kibaki’s legacy reflects an unacceptable institutionalisation of ethnicity,” Hassan said.<\/p>\n
“The leadership of the country’s security apparatus is almost exclusively from Kibaki’s ethnic Kikuyu,” he added in the November 26 article.<\/p>\n
Violation<\/strong><\/p>\nGovernment spokesman Alfred Mutua said Hassan should resign, accusing him of violating the constitution.<\/p>\n
“It is, for lack of a better words, flabbergasting, shocking, amazing, astounding and scary that a commissioner of human rights actually promotes views that can be understood to promote tribal differences similar to those witnessed before and during the post-election violence,” Mutua said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Therefore, we call upon commissioner Mr Hassan Omar Hassan to do the honourable thing and in keeping with … our constitution to step aside and even better resign for he has violated our constitution.”<\/p>\n
Following Kibaki’s disputed re-election in 2007, Kenya was ravaged by ethnic violence which claimed some 1,500 lives.<\/p>\n
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