Move to ban NGOs unwise, unprogressive

The reasons for which the government sought to restrict the activities of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO's); trying to micro manage them by putting limitations on their foreign funding were not based on facts, but rather on politically induced, and even misplaced suspicion of their activities.

This came at a time the Government was at a complete loss to explain why the Al-Shabaab insurgents were having a free run on the country and making a joke of the security services. It was while hitting out blindly that NGO's came into the peripheral view of the Government and because their funding is mostly foreign without much government control, they offered an easy target for harassment.