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The Department of Immigration has maintained that lawyer Miguna Miguna, who was deported on Tuesday night, is a Canadian and not a Kenyan.
Director Gordon Kihalangwa, in his affidavit which was ordered by the court on Wednesday, says Miguna had fled the country as a political refugee.
He further avers that the lawyer, who was arrested for his role in Raila Odinga January 30 oath, was illegally issued a passport when he was the former PM's advisor.
The immigration boss further states that though Miguna was born on December 31, 1962 in Nyando, Kisumu, he fled to Ottawa in Canada as a political refugee.
According to Kihalangwa, Miguna applied for a Kenyan passport in 1987 to enable him travel to Havana, Cuba for the 15th Congress of International Union of Students and the World Student Conference as a student leader.
"The request was, however, rejected and in December same year the department wrote back to Miguna informing him of the decision."
In 1992, he said Miguna wrote to Kenya High Commission in Ottawa requesting him to intervene and issue him with a Kenyan passport.
In his letter to the ambassador, it is said Miguna stated that he fled the country in 1998 as a political refugee and that he travelled to Canada without a Kenyan passport since his request for one had been declined in 1987.
"The applicant in 2009 made another application for a Kenyan passport at the Kisumu passport control office. Upon receipt of the application, the late Gerald Kajwang, who was then minister in charge of immigration, approved that a duplicate file be opened at the Nyayo House, headquarters," the affidavit reads.
The late Kajwang is said to have instructed that Miguna, who was at that time Raila's advisor, be issued with a Kenyan passport.
"The Kenyan passport was illegally issued to him without any legal backing despite the fact that he already had a Canadian passport. The repealed Constitution did not provide for dual nationality," he states.
According to Kihalangwa, investigations by the department revealed that Miguna is a Canadian citizen who holds passport number HP679627.
"He has at all time travelled in and out of the country using several Canadian passports numbers MJ393885 and WK944502."
Kihalangwa said Interior CS Fred Matiang'i issued a deportation declaration after the department brought the matter to his attention.
"Pursuant to the orders referred to, I instructed my officers on February 6 to ensure that the orders have been effected," Kihalangwa said.
He said: "The applicant was arrested within the precincts of inland container depot-Embakasi and taken to JKIA for purposes of deportation and did board KLM flight number KL0566 to Toronto Canada via Amsterdam."
Kihalangwa, however, said the department was not aware of the court orders as none had been served as it would definitely comply.
He added that the immigration department is not party to the application in question. - The Star
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True the dates do not add up. They have stated he fled Kenya in 1998 but it shows he was in Canada in 1992. Something is not right here. Canada might look what he filled in his paperwork.
Thank you for pointing that out to the Immigration - now they will really comb to find out what else he lied about . See NASA goons as "educated' as they purport to be - they open their mouths and lead the investigators in the name of bragging how intelligent they are also in theory and the other side just easily out outmaneuvers them - who needs a law degree and a student loan to back it up
Good, next do something about Rao
Dr. Mating: You have been used to soil the name of Kenya and made Dr. Miguna an international hero. Shame on you!
What hero?
I am seeing a lot of trumpism within the RAO/luopean operations. -No press is bad press...they instead see popularity/heroism/fame...
-Texas talks secession..luopeans dub,
-telling and repeating blatant lies whenever they open their mouth; be it in a matatu, print media, social media, everywhere,
-intense hatred of those who are different or those who think differently.....etc wtc
Majority of us are left dumbfounded and lost for words or action.
Matiang' Keep doing what you are doing, expose fake Heros in bata slippers deported to oblivion, these goons need to be exposed and if anyone watched Mr. Tuju interview with BBC they should know serikali iko na mkono mlevu. Kenya Intelligent Unit trains with the world greatest and collaborates with such and if you are a movie buff watch this movie "Eye in the Sky" - never underestimate that kind of intelligence...unless you are dumb and do not read beyond Mwakilishi and boast of having ancestors who fought for our Kenya precious freedom. Wiyaathi was real not fake narrative by some culprit whose narrative is so yo yo , flip flop , one never knows which one presents "IT"SELF here....And no I didn't mention names , did I ?
The dates do not add up . How did Miguna travel to Canada without a passport. If his initial request was denied in 1987 he landed in Canada in 1988 or 1989 .What passport if any was used or are you saying Canada anticipated his plans and thus sent him a passport . Also the immigration dept was aware that a judge required Miguna to appear in court but you decided to ignore the order and instead put him on the next flight to Canada .People are not stupid and what is done in darkness eventually comes to light.