This man David Ndii

David Ndii speaking at a past event in 2017. [Wilberforce Okwiri/Standard]

Long before the secession debate became main stream after the polarising elections, economist David Ndii had flirted with the idea of breaking up Kenya into separate ethnic states close to two years ago.

In an article published in one of the local dailies, said the Kenyan experiment had failed and it would be of great economic value if sections of the country seceded.