Kenya opposition firebrand politician Miguna Miguna in a Dubai hospital
on March 29, 2018. He claimed tests confirmed that he was drugged by
police at JKIA, Nairobi. PHOTO | COURTESY
Kenyan opposition firebrand politician Dr
Miguna Miguna says he is "marooned" in Dubai and wants the government to
deliver his Kenyan passport to him.
In
a statement, Dr Miguna on Friday said he is still unwell after "police"
and "state agents" injected him with "unknown chemicals".
"I
am in great pain, stress and inconvenience. My left hand is still badly
swollen. I believe that Jubilee thugs had inserted an IV in it to keep
me unconscious for the entire duration of the flight between Nairobi and
Dubai," he said.
"My left side is
extremely painful. I’m yet to get toxicology tests done on the chemicals
the state thugs violently and illegally injected me with on Tuesday
evening."
Passport
He
reiterated that he would not leave United Arab Emirates for anywhere
else but Kenya and asked Interior minister Fred Matiang’i and
Immigration Principal Secretary Gordon Kihalangwa to deliver his
passport.
The Kenyan passport that Dr Miguna held was confiscated by the government and perforated, saying he acquired it illegally.
“I don’t have any travel document or passport,” he said.
“I
need Kihalangwa and Matiang’i to deliver my Kenyan passport to me here
in Dubai tomorrow, March 30, 2018, as multiple courts have ordered them
to do, so that I can use it to travel to Nairobi immediately.”
He
asked Dr Matiang'i, Mr Kihalangwa and Inspector-General of Police
Joseph Boinnet, who have since been fined Ksh200,000 ($2,000) each for
contempt, to comply with High Court orders and facilitate his
unconditional return to Nairobi.
"I
insist that my constitutional right to a Kenyan passport must be
respected and upheld. My right to travel in and out of the country
freely must also be respected and upheld at all times, in the same
manner that these rights apply to all Kenyans equally," he said.
He insisted that he would return to Kenya after he is cleared by UAE.
"I’m
waiting for clearance from the Emirates Air and UAE authorities and an
air ticket back to Nairobi. I intend to fly back to Nairobi as soon as
possible. It’s my birthright, constitutional and legal right as well,"
he said.
"I will never waive my rights because an authoritarian and barbaric usurpers of power demand or expect that I do."
Ejection
The
lawyer was kicked out of Kenya on Wednesday evening after a 72-hour
standoff at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.
The impasse was precipitated by his refusal to sign immigration papers and have his Canadian passport stamped.
First
deported to Canada in February, Dr Miguna claims Kenyan and Canadian
citizenship, but the government says he renounced his Kenyan birthright
when he acquired his Canadian passport.
The High Court
in Nairobi has ordered the government to facilitate his return from
Toronto to take part in his citizenship case after the Court of Appeal
rejected State's request to have the orders suspended.
The
Department of Immigration had on Tuesday issued application papers to
Miguna to enable him start the process of enabling him regain his Kenyan
citizenship as ordered by the courts, and to also facilitate his entry
into the country after he refused to produce the Canadian passport he
had used to travel back to Kenya.
Application documents
But
when the application documents were delivered to him in the presence of
the Consular Officer of the Canadian High Commission to Kenya, Ms Fiona
Jarvis, Dr Miguna refused to fill in the relevant details and sign the
forms.
Instead, he tore the official documents and was denied entry.
The
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), which has been
following up and will be filing a report in court, on Thursday said it
was disappointed by some of the lawyer’s decisions.
“I
was disappointed with Dr Miguna because the court order had allowed him
to use his Canadian passport to gain entry into the country,” said
KNCHR chairperson Kagwiria Mbogori.
“I
had expected him at least to use it to gain entry into the country, and
his refusal boggled us. There were some missteps on both sides.”
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