Lawyer Miguna Miguna has been deported to Canada for a second time. This follows a two-day standoff between the Canada-based lawyer and Kenya’s immigration officials at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
Miguna’s lawyer Nelson Havi said his client was forced into a Dubai-bound flight EK 772 on Wednesday night.
Miguna arrived at JKIA on Monday night on a flight from Dubai. Immigration officials could not however clear him into the country because he refused to hand in his Canadian passport to them. Miguna demanded to be handed his Kenyan passport so that he can enter the country as a Kenyan, but it was not provided to him.
The stand-off has led him to remain at the airport since he arrived. Officials first tried to deport him on Monday night but he resisted the move and stormed out of a Monday night Dubai-based flight.
Immigration officials have maintained that the self-declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) general is no longer a Kenyan after having acquired Canadian citizenship before the promulgation of the new constitution, and after him having failed to apply to re-gain his Kenyan citizenship. The government took away the Kenyan passport he had shortly before he was deported from the country the first time last month.
Earlier in the day, High Court Judge George Odunga convicted Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’I, former Immigration chief Gordon Kihalang’wa and Police Inspector General Joseph Boinnett t for contempt of a court order that demanded for the release of Miguna from detention at the airport.
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