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The government has confirmed it has deported self-proclaimed National Resistance Movement (NRM) general Miguna Miguna from the country to Canada.
In a statement issued by Interior Ministry spokesperson Mwenda Njoka, the government said that Miguna had renounced his Kenyan citizenship before the promulgation of the new Constitution, which paved way for one to hold dual citizenship.
Njoka further said that the lawyer failed to reclaim his Kenyan citizenship after the new Constitution was enacted to allow for dual citizenship.
"Miguna denounced his Kenyan citizenship years back, acquired Canadian citizenship and never bothered to reclaim Kenyan citizenship in the legally prescribed manner neither did he disclose that he had another country’s citizenship despite being a lawyer who should have known better," Njoka said.
He added: “At the time he was working as an advisor to then then Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Prior to being illegally issued with a Kenyan passport, Miguna had been travelling using Canadian Passport No. MJ 393885 and WK 944502. Miguna renewed his Canadian passport in June 2017 just a few weeks to the general elections.”
“When Miguna acquired Kenyan passport in March 2009, he deliberately failed to disclose the fact that he had acquired citizenship of another country and therefore the Kenyan passport he acquired then was and still remains illegal,”Njoka also said.
The Ministry further said that Miguna's deportation is based on legal provisions.
“Based on the provisions of section 33(1) and 43(1) of the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, 2011," Njoka said.
Under 2010 Constitution, individuals who had renounced their Kenyan citizenship before its promulgation are required to re-apply to the Immigration department.
Miguna was forced into a KLM flight at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Tuesday evening by government authorities to Canada via Amsterdam.
However, the lawyer in a series of tweets after his deportation vowed to fight his way back to the country.
"The despots have put me in a flight to Amsterdam enroute to Toronto, departure time right now."
"Instead of taking me to court as ordered repeatedly by the courts, they seized my passports and drove me to the runaway at the JKIA from 6pm up to now," Miguna said.
Miguna was arrested on Friday at his home in Runda estate in Nairobi and remained in police custody for several days, despite court ordering he be freed on a Sh50,000 cash bail.
Police said Miguna was arrested in connection to the swearing-in of Nasa leader Raila Odinga, being a member of NRM - which was recently declared a criminal group, and being part of an illegal assembly.
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Treason equlas death by hanging. He should thank Uhuruto for saving his stinking ass.
Miguna children are grown. One girl is a porn star. You mean they had not read in the internet that their father was arrested
Miguna Miguna, bye bye. We will let you back to Kenya when Raila takes over as President. But for now, enjoy your country "Canaan of Canada". Tell Raila you are now a Christopher Columbus - You have discovered Canaan in Canada. Then he can bring his people there.
@Rumbwa, @mteja, and @Sokora: My dear brothers, wake up! Our traditional laws (democratic pluralism) allowed disagreements even with your parents. They (laws) were so advanced that, they did not include the word "treason" as a way of dealing with dissent. Things fell apart when we thought that we were "educated" and discarded almost all our rational traditional laws in our New Constitution.
For those young writers who were born during Toroitich's regime, I would like to inform you that it was rare in our traditional laws to hear that a person has killed or even a woman raped. These have now become normal in our abnormal Kenya. By the way, when did you hear that in our traditional laws people were burnt in a building as it happened in Eldoret in Kiambaa church? Guess what? the person responsible for the deaths in Kiambaa church is now the deputy president of Kenya!
I don't respect any foreign laws that were integrated into our national laws that don't take into account that we did have our own laws that were indeed superior to the foreign laws. I am asking our elected members of the legislative to amend our laws that exclude the word "treason" and apply our ancestral laws that were based on "democratic pluralism."
Do you know Ruto won his case but his boss Raila has never wrote a statement about 07/08 PEV or denied his involvement in it?Do you know that Raila's trigger of violence was live on all Kenyan TVs?Do you know that Kenya's useless constitution has sections that has institutionalized corruption?A good example is where every Kenyan finance privately owned,useless political parties.Do you know that "corruption fighter",Raila's campaign was financed by stolen taxpayer's funds?
Canada has received a real shithole... poop on them there, they don't mind.
Miguna Miguna!Welcome back home, Toronto Canada. While you were away (God knows for how long); we have a new Prime minister in Ottawa and property taxes have
gone up a bit. Mortgage interest have also risen. That's just to bring you upto speed as to what you have missed. Options available for you as you land
in the land of Queen: Have you been paying your taxes? If not then visiting CRA might be the 1st on the to do list. You may also consider running
for the premier post or mayor of Toronto BUT make sure you have been taking care of Uncle CRA before you open your mouth.
Otherwise its winter now and its not a bad idea to get yourself a tin of campell chicken noodle soup, cuddle and enjoy your vacation.
Asante sana ndugu, watakumiss sana penya umetoka!
now he knoe who is mayiangi
Hope Canadian authorities will take up the responsibility to ensure that their national Miguna Miguna does not use Canada as a base to organize and arm his criminal organization NRM to forment violence aimed to destabilize democratically elected government of Kenya.
Miguna is back to his country after inducing violence in Kenya using Raila. He (Miguna) describes Rao vividly as a lotten person. PEELING BACK THE MASK pg 419.
Raila amemalizwa na Miguna through NRM. Miguna's deffence against treason would have been 'I am not a Kenyan but Rao is and should have known the laws of Kenya'
Miguna had come for revange against Raila. Hehehe! Amefaulu!
Miguna had ealier advised the other chiefs in NASA to stay away frm the swearing.
Miguna, Miguna, when you landed at Pearson Airport you talked about how your very big and beautiful house was trashed. My question is if you actually file your Canadian tax returns and whether you declare such foreign wealth? Are your taxes up to date? Kenya does tax returns too. Have you met your Kenyan obligation of filing taxes? I also heard you say that you were looking forward to hug your children and wife after you landed. Is it fair to to leave your family in a safe environment while you go stir problems in a country you fled years ago? Trying to kill two birds with one stone sometimes does not work out. I think you saw an opportunity and you took it but odds worked against you. Canadians speak the truth and it would be nice for you to tell your inner truth instead of trying to get Canadians feel sorry for you, because after all Canadians are nice. You can fool some people some of the times, and you can fool all the people some of the times, but you cannot fool everyone at all times. I am just saying! There are a lot of eyes out there watching you and they cannot be fooled around.
His wife said she feared that the three children of the Al Shabaab/NRM killer "general" would be worried if they heard of his arrest.But i am surprised that the reporter didn't ask her whether the children he and muuaji Raila intended to kill were sired by men or were miracle babies from fake bishop Ndeya.These self declared resistance gangsters should be killed instead of arresting them.