Matiang'i: Gov't Didn't Deport Miguna Miguna to Dubai

Self-declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) general Miguna Miguna was not deported to Dubai on Wednesday last week, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has said.

Speaking when he appeared before Parliamentary Committee on National Security and Administration on Tuesday, the CS said that Miguna had not entered the country since he was not cleared by the Immigration officials at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi.

Matiang’i said that the government only returned Miguna to his last port of departure- Dubai

“If he (Miguna) was deported I would have had to sign a deportation order," Matiang'i told the committee.

He added: “He was not in Kenya, he had not been cleared so he was not in our custody or jurisdiction . He was a passenger on transit who did not identify himself."

The committee had summoned the CS alongside Immigration Principal Secretary Gordon Kihalangwa and Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet to explain the fiery lawyer's second deportation.

The Interior CS also explained that Miguna was put in a Dubai-bound Emirates flight, since that was the airline he had used to fly to Kenya.

“According to international convention he was removed from the air-side of the airport to the last port of call. Emirates carried him because that is the plane he used to Kenya,” Dr. Matiang’i maintained.

Miguna returned to Canada on Sunday after spending four days at the Dubai international Airport.