Raila Odinga. It is argued that his economic adviser is the one behind the boycott calls. [Photo|NASA]Secessionist and National Resistance Movement (NRM) policy chief David Ndii is without a doubt the man behind the ragtag movement's idea to call for products and services boycott from three companies, among its supporters.This is if a column by the economist on this week's Saturday Nation is anything to go by.Ndii in the column, argues on a point he terms as 'regulatory capture'. He says that this occurs when a state regulatory agency becomes a protector of the industry it is supposed to regulate instead of serving the public interest."With regulatory capture, the firms or industry that have captured the regulator end up with more power than they would have if the market was unregulated," Ndii, a Kiambu County local, writes on Saturday Nation."When regulatory capture becomes pervasive it progresses into state capture.The entire state becomes an instrument of concentrating economic power in a few hands. Concentrated economic power will inevitably capture the state and subvert the public interest," he adds echoing NRM leader Raila Odinga's call for an economic boycott.Ndii, who has also been leading secession calls for the so-called NASA zones, has said that 'people may continue to vote, but democracy is a sham because the government has its owners'.However, Ndii's sentiments are not welcome among a section of Kiambu residents whom this reporter has spoken to."Raila Odinga and NRM should be genuine enough and go ahead to request his supporters working for these companies and the more he is going to mention as promised, to resign. Otherwise, he shouldn't think we are fools and follow his nonsense," George Otieno, a fish seller in Thika's Makongeni Estate said on Friday.For Esther Waithera, a Jamhuri Market cereals seller, the economic boycott will cut badly among Nasa supporters and non-supporters."If it is going to work, they should not think that it is only those whom they are targeting who it will affect. All of us especially the poor will suffer most. I can't fathom what this country is getting us into," she said.

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