Professor Makau Mutua and Dr David Ndii engage in heated debate over Kenya's wastage of public resources

CAPTION: Professor Makau Mutua and Dr David Ndii On Saturday, two of Kenya's top intellectuals, Professor Makau Mutua and Dr David Ndii were in a heated debate on social media over Kenya's expenditure and its wastage of public resources.

Professor Makau began and tweeted that Nigeria, despite their huge population only had 109 senators, 360 members of the lower house and 36 states compared to Kenya's 67 members of the Senate, 349 members of parliament and 47 continues.

In his tweet, Makau suggested an amendment of the Kenyan constitution in order to reduce the wastage.

In response, David Ndii told Professor Makau that if his logic were to be applied, Botswana and Namibia would have 4 members of parliament. He also noted that the members of parliament to population ratio was non-linear; meaning that the smaller or bigger the population, the bigger or smaller the ratio.

https://twitter.com/DavidNdii/status/1096684272679878658?s=19 Makau Mutua replied saying that he heard David but his point wasn't a formalistic statistical question but more about the larger matter of the wastage of public resources.

Ndii finished off by saying that Jubilee cannot account for over two trillion shillings of borrowed money and that the Presidency alone spends more money than constitutional commissions combined.

https://twitter.com/DavidNdii/status/1096687794091626496?s=19 He also told Makau that it was their “cardinal duty” as intellectuals to frame the right issues, a point which Makau fully agreed with.