Miguna Miguna Seeks $10,000 Compensation over Aborted Trip to Kenya

Kenyan-Canadian attorney Miguna Miguna has sued Foreign Affairs CS Raychelle Omamo over his failed trip to Kenya.

Miguna, who was deported to Canada in 2018, wants CS Omamo committed to civil jail for disobeying a court order requiring the ministry to facilitate his trip to Kenya.

“She has willfully disobeyed the same with impunity and demonstrated callous refusal to comply with it,” reads court documents.

“The actions of the CS are in bad faith contemptuous and a dangerous affront to the proper administration of justice.”

Miguna, in the case filed at the High Court on Tuesday, says he visited the Kenyan Embassy in Berlin, Germany on November 22nd and 23rd last year but officials refused to issue him with an emergency travel certificate as ordered by High Court judge Hedwig Ong’udi.

In addition, Miguna wants the court to order the government, Air Lufthansa, and Air France to compensate him for the over $10,000 he incurred in his aborted trip.

“I spent more than $10,000 on this latest trip. Besides, I spent an equivalent amount in March 2018 and January 2020 when the state prevented me from entering Kenya,” says Miguna.

“I seek severe penal punishment including but not limited to custodial sentences of the contemnors in addition to having them ordered to jointly and severally compensate me for the losses incurred in relation to the aborted trip to Kenya in November.”

Miguna was set to travel to Kenya on November 16th, 2021 but he was barred from boarding a Nairobi-bound France Air flight in Berlin over a red alert allegedly issued by the Kenyan government.

In 2018, Justice Chacha Mwita ruled that Miguna is a Kenyan citizen and that his birthright is not affected by him holding a Canadian passport. The jusge further ruled that Miguna’s rights were violated when they deported him and awarded Sh7 million as compensation.