Miguna Miguna Clashes with Immigration Officials Moments after Landing at JKIA

A standoff ensued between Immigration officers and self-declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) general Miguna Miguna moments after he landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Monday afternoon.

Miguna, who was deported to Canada on February 6th, has been denied entry into the country, with Immigration authorities at the airport demanding he applies for a Visa.

Miguna’s lawyer Cliff Ombeta said the officials wanted him to surrender his Canadian passport, but he refused, causing a standoff. "They want him to take a temporary visa so that he becomes stateless when it expires. We have advised him not to sign the papers. They are now consulting their seniors,” Mr Ombeta told journalists at the airport.

"The despots have denied me entry! They are insisting that I must enter as a foreigner on a visa. I will not and cannot agree. My advocates appear either too weak or compromised," Dr Miguna said.

Reports indicate that the Immigration officials are treating the former Nairobi gubernatorial aspirant as a Canadian citizen after his Kenyan passport was cancelled before he was banished to Canada. They want him to apply for a 6-month tourist Visa to allow him stay in the country. However, Miguna refused to apply for a visa, prompting the officers to bar him from exiting the airport clearance area.

The flight carrying the firebrand lawyer landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at 2.30pm.

Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) officials led by its chairperson Kagwiria Mbogori and his lawyers Nelson Havi and Ombeta are currently pushing for his clearance.