Two years ago, Professor Bitange Ndemo caused a storm after sharing his thoughts about why building huge mansions in the countryside where the builder hardly spends time in--only during festivities and holidays--as opposed to where the builder actually resides and carries out day-to-day economic activities is a foolish undertaking.
In his article, Prof Ndemo argued that such investments offer little or no economic value where they are built and are more of show-off than worthy of any returns of the money invested to put such units up.
