After nearly five years of exile, lawyer Miguna Miguna has at last received his passport.
The troubled attorney said on social media on Tuesday night that President William Ruto had made sure that his passport was processed, paving the way for his return to Kenya.
The outspoken attorney claimed that, contrary to earlier instructions, he did not need to sign any paperwork in order to obtain the travel document.
“1687 days after Uhuru Kenyatta, @RailaOdinga, Fred Matiang’i, @Karanjakibicho and @GKihalangwa CONSPIRED to illegally SEIZE and DESTROYED my Kenyan Passport, President @WilliamsRuto has had a new one DELIVERED to me. Waiting for the LIFTING of RED ALERTS,” Miguna wrote on Twitter. I didn’t have to sign the silly forms they were speaking about.”
This follows Miguna’s recent assurance to Kenyans that President Ruto would make it easier for him to return home.
In a prior declaration made by Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i, the administration of former President Uhuru Kenyatta had claimed that Miguna needed to complete a one-page form for citizenship re-registration before he could enter the nation again.
At the time, Matiang’i asserted that the lawyer had lost his citizenship as a result of the restrictions of the previous constitution, which forbade dual citizenship; Miguna refuted these assertions.
“You have to fill a piece of paper so that you regain your Kenyan passport or citizenship. There’s a judgment by the court on this matter which prescribed clearly how you regain your citizenship,” said Matiang’i in a media interview on April 18, 2022.
Added:
“There are court rulings in place by the high court on how you regain citizenship after you lost citizenship in the old constitution. Because in the old constitution you were not allowed to have dual citizenship.”
