Questions abound on what self-styled NRM ‘general’ and NASA activist Miguna Miguna will undertake after his return to Canada on Monday.
The fiery lawyer was deported for a second time by the Kenyan government on March 28 after a three-day stand-off at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
He was hounded to an Emirates plane bound for Dubai where he arrived on Thursday morning and spent three days trying to make his way back to Kenya but it was not possible.
On Sunday, minutes after midnight, he boarded an Air Canada plane at the Dubai International Airport under heavy escort from UAE Police.
Upon landing in Toronto, Canada on Monday, he released a statement stating he will still return to Kenya for a third time in spite of all the mishaps he has been through.
“After my medical treatment abroad, I intend to immediately return to Kenya and to continue the struggle for a better and just society that we Kenyans have been yearning for 55 years,” he said in the statement posted on his Facebook page.
Miguna’s hopes to return to Kenya, according to his statement, are premised on what he says that he is a Kenyan by birth.
But the state argues that he lost his Kenyan citizenship in 1998 when he became a Canadian citizen. At the time, the Kenyan Constitution did not allow for dual citizenship.
He is required to apply afresh for Kenyan citizenship, a move he rejected last week on Tuesday.
He shred into pieces forms sent to him by the immigration department in a bid to regularize his citizenship status.
It is based on this fact that he refused to hand over his Canadian passport at JKIA on March 26 to secure his entry to Kenya.
“I refused to hand over my Canadian passport to the tyrants in Kenya because I arrived in Kenya on March 26th as a Kenyan born citizen.”
The genesis of Miguna’s woes emanated from his role at the unofficial swearing-in of Raila Odinga as the People’s President on January 30 at Uhuru Park.
Miguna signed and stamped the documents. He was arrested two days later and was locked up in police cells for five days before being deported on February 6 on account he was no longer a Kenyan citizen.