Miguna Miguna Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/miguna-miguna/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 07 Jan 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Miguna Miguna Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/miguna-miguna/ 32 32 Deported Kenyan lawyer barred from taking a flight home https://jjcornish.com/2020/01/deported-kenyan-lawyer-barred-from-taking-a-flight-home/ Tue, 07 Jan 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/01/deported-kenyan-lawyer-barred-from-taking-a-flight-home/ Dissident Kenyan lawyer Miguna Miguna has been barred from flying home despite the Nairobi government’s assurance that it will comply with a court order allowing him to do so. Miguna was deported in 2018 after presiding at an unofficial swearing in ceremony for Raila Odinga who claimed to have beaten President Raila Odinga in a […]

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]]> Dissident Kenyan lawyer Miguna Miguna has been barred from flying home despite the Nairobi government’s assurance that it will comply with a court order allowing him to do so.

Miguna was deported in 2018 after presiding at an unofficial swearing in ceremony for Raila Odinga who claimed to have beaten President Raila Odinga in a 2017 election.

Miguna Miguna has tried unsuccessfully to return home from exile in Canada where he holds citizenship.

This time he was barred from entering a flight from Frankfurt to Nairobi because of a red alert issued by the Kenyan  government at the time of his deportation.

The Nairobi High Court today ordered the government  effectively to lift that red alert keeping Miguna from coming home

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