IEBC officials count ballots on August 8, 2017 at the Victoria Primary School polling station in Kisumu. Analyst says it is high time Kenya borrowed a leaf from her East African neighbours on elections and governance structures. [Photo: nation.co.ke]Kenya needs to come up with a mechanism of ensuring ethnic inclusivity in governance where election losers do not feel disenfranchised.Political commentator Captain Collins Wanderi has said that there is a need of Kenya borrowing from her East Africa Community neighbours who have multi-ethnic groups but rarely experience tribal clashes after elections."In Uganda and Tanzania they have the position of President, Vice President, Prime Minister and at least two Deputy Prime Ministers. This ensures that every region or tribe in the country feel represented " Wanderi told NTV on Thursday morning.He added: "Absolute ethnic majority in governance should be discouraged. The significant minority must be taken care of by bringing them together to cohesively create a united nation."Wanderi noted that the problem with Kenya is that in every election 'we simply have ethnic coalitions which political and social commentators have rightly termed as ethnic censuses'."So long as we continue to mobilize on the basis of ethnicity, the side that loses will always feel disenfranchised and excluded from governance. So this is a big problem than just the pronouncement of results and winners," Wanderi who is also an Advocate of the High Court said.

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