MIGUNA IN COURT SEEKING WITHDRAWAL OF RED ALERTS AHEAD OF HIS RETURN TO KENYA

Canada-based Kenyan lawyer Miguna Miguna has moved to court seeking to have the red alerts issued against him lifted.

In a petition filed at the High Court of Kenya through lawyer Dr. John Khaminwa, Miguna says the red alerts that the government issued have made it impossible for him to travel into the country.

According to Miguna, the red alerts issued to Lufthansa German Airlines and Air France are illegal and should therefore be lifted to allow him to travel into the country next week on Tuesday, November 16.

“Miguna is a Kenyan citizen by birth and has the right to enter the country any time he wishes,” reads court documents.

Attorney General Kihara Kariuki, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo, Kenya Civil Aviation Authority Director-General Gilbert Kibe, Kenya Airports Authority Acting Managing Director Alex Gitari and Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Mating’i are listed as respondents in the petition.

A ruling on the matter is expected to be delivered on Friday.

The lawyer was deported in February 2018 after swearing in Raila Odinga as the ‘People’s President’ at Uhuru Park in January 2018. His passport was confiscated by authorities at the time.

On February 28, 2018, Justice Chacha Mwita ordered the government to submit Miguna’s passport to the High Court and also grant him unconditional entry into the country.

The court similarly quashed an earlier decree by Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i that had sought to nullify the lawyer’s citizenship and validate his forced exile.

On 26 March the same year, Miguna attempted to come back to the country, only to be denied entry at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by government officials. He was similarly allegedly detained by authorities for three days.

He would later be deported to Dubai, a journey the lawyer claims he does not recall since he was sedated. This happened despite a court order issued on the same day by Justice George Odunga barring the government from forcefully removing him from the country.