Miguna Miguna Sues Lufthansa Airlines, Air France After Failed Trip to Kenya

Kenyan-Canadian lawyer Miguna Miguna has sued Lufthansa Airlines and Air France following his failed trip to Kenya last month.

In an application filed under a certificate of urgency at the Milimani Law Courts on Friday, Miguna asks the court to issue an order compelling the two airlines to fly him to the jurisdiction of the court within 48 hours ahead of the hearing of the application.

Miguna, who filed the application through his lawyer John Khaminwa, further wants the court to bar the two airlines from flying to Kenya if they fail to transport him to the jurisdiction of the court in Kenya. In addition, Miguna asks the court to bar the government of Kenya from issuing red alerts and travel advisories against him.

He also lists Kenya's Attorney-General Kihara Kariuki, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i, Foreign Affairs CS Rachel Omamo and Kenya Airports Authority as respondents in the case filed in the high court constitution and human rights registry.

Miguna, a firebrand lawyer who describes himself as a National Resistance Movement (NRM) general, also wants the court to declare that the respondents’ decision to cancel his citizenship, revoke and confiscate his passport is unconstitutional, illegal and void. 

"A declaration that the detaining of the petitioner without justification and informing him of the reasons of such detention, holding him communicado in deplorable and inhumane conditions, threatening him with death and physical harm, denying him food and sanitation services was a violation of petitioners rights protected by the constitution," his lawyer told the court.