Kenyan US-based lawyer Prof Makau Mutua has been criticised for saying former Zimbabwe President Robert Gabriel Mugabe will go to hell.
Mugabe, 95, died on Friday in Singapore where he was undergoing treatment following a long illness.
Mutua, who said he won't mourn the veteran leader, said Mugabe will go to hell where he will join other African and world 'brutal dictators' who have gone before him.
"No one should mourn Robert Mugabe. He’s going straight to hell to join Idi Amin, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Muamar Qaddafi, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Augusto Pinochet, Josef Stalin, Mobutu Sese Seko, Ferdinand Marcos, and their ilk. Let’s stop the hypocrisy," he tweeted.
The remarks did not go well with former Mukurwe-ini MP Kabando Wa Kabando who slammed Mutua for assuming to take over the role of judgement from God.
"Only God knows destiny of every of His creation. Fallible beings won’t be holy judge. Rest In Peace freedom fighter Robert Mugabe," said Kabando, who is also a lawyer.
Political commentator and university lecturer Prof Herman Manyora also took on Mutua for labelling Mugabe and former Libyan President Muamar Qaddafi as dictators destined for hell.
"Please remove Comrade Mugabe and Visionary Muamar Qaddafi from this list. These are our heroes. Wacha porojo za wazungu (Stop whiteman's propaganda)" he remarked.
Mutua defended his remarks stating he lived in Zimbabwe where he had the first-hand experience of Mugabe's brutality.
"My brother, I worked on (sic) Zimbabwe personally at the height of Mugabe’s brutal killings and torture. I don’t need the West to tell me what I saw, witnessed, and recorded," he said.
In a quick rejoinder, Manyora hit back: "I don’t like hypocrisy. We close our eyes when Americans destroy whole populations but are quick to demonize our own for far less excesses.