Ndemo wrong to bare fangs at civil society for oversight role

Typically, I don’t devote my column to refuting – and exposing – drivel published by columnists in other papers. Dr Bitange Ndemo’s screed (“David Ndii’s position exposes hypocrisy of civil society,” Saturday Nation, July 8) cannot be allowed to stand unchallenged. In the piece, Ndemo trash-talks Dr Ndii – the distinguished economist – and scurrilously accuses him of being a hateful double-dealing hypocrite driven by anti-Jubilee partisan bile.

He charges Ndii of hiding under the cover of the academy and civil society to advance an anti-Kenyan, unpatriotic, and un-interrogated mountain of crap to undermine and discredit Kenya. Read between the lines and Ndemo is accusing Ndii of treasonous conduct. Let me bring out my sickle and hammer.