His stance has been variously received in Kenya's media, but some questions have remained at the fore front of public discourse on the matter. First, was the Kisumu Mollases Plant a private entity or a public one? Second,what was Raila's contribution when the public assets disposal bill came before parliament ? 

I am not saying the wanton public disposal seen in the recent past in Kenyan markets and the scheduled offload of these assets in 2007 , has been done in the best interest of Kenyans, neither am I supporting the methods used in their disposal.

But I have deep doubts about Raila's regard for Kenyans, his penchant for doublespeak , his duplicituous behaviour and his  populist motives which betray little interest for Kenyans at their heart. Read for example his comments on the current sale of public assets as reported  here.

His hypocrisy and duplicity come across through his  failure to establish the clear similarity between the Rift Valley Railway cohort having among its number people related to President Kibaki's regime  as in the Transcentury Group  ;and Energem / Spectre International in the saga of  the grossly undervalued Kisumu Molasses Plant (KMP) .

The way I see it , the claim by Raila that Kenyans are being robbed in the disposal of assets is purely hypocritical. Does he have the moral authority to comment about this issue?  Where is Raila's credibility on this issue if we reflect back on how the KMP migrated from public to private hands.

Infact to strecth it bit further, the recent public assets disposal have at least been done in the open; the government's divestiture of the state's stake in Kengen was done on the open market and several retail investors were allocated ownership , as  was the case with regard to Mumias Sugar Comapny.  RVR 's privatisation was done with the stewardship of International Finance Corporation as transactional advisers. The whole arrangement was made public ,even though it was partly flawed. Turning to the KMP on the other hand, public assets , owned by the local population changed hands with barely a whisper in the national press. Who was the transaction advisor? Was any effort  made to publicise the proceedings or did we just witness a sudden transfer of these valuable assets to the Odinga family the night before the KANU-NDP merger? It must be clear that it is only later that Energem and others were sold stakes in the company.

No bidding was done, no public valuation was disclosed but still Raila would have us believe this was not a robbery, that this,somehow, is different from the concessioning orKenya Railways.