{"id":71023,"date":"2022-10-12T15:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-has-lifted-red-alerts-imposed-against-me-miguna"},"modified":"2022-10-12T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T15:44:55","slug":"ruto-has-lifted-red-alerts-imposed-against-me-miguna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-has-lifted-red-alerts-imposed-against-me-miguna","title":{"rendered":"Ruto has lifted red alerts imposed against me \u2014 Miguna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>The government has lifted red alerts imposed on lawyer Miguna Miguna in March 2018.<\/p>\n

The lawyer made the revelation on Wednesday saying he will now travel back to Kenya on October 26.<\/p>\n

“The Government of William Ruto and Rigathi Gachagua has lifted the Red Alerts Uhuru Kenyatta illegally imposed against me with the connivance of Raila Odinga.<\/p>\n

“My arrival: October 20 at 6am. The Rule of law, fearlessness, persistence and focus have prevailed,” Miguna said in a tweet.<\/p>\n

The lifting of the travel bans now ends more than a three-year wait for the lawyer to return home after he was forcefully deported to Canada in March 2018.<\/p>\n

On September 13, Miguna claimed the red alerts would be lifted a day later but it never materialised.<\/p>\n

He told Kenyans that President William Ruto had assured him of his return once the red alerts are lifted.<\/p>\n

“Thereafter, I will have my Kenyan Passport renewed and I\u2019ll announce the date of my return to my motherland,” he stated.<\/p>\n

The self-proclaimed National Resistance Movement (NRM) leader was at loggerheads with the Jubilee administration following his role in the unofficial swearing-in of then opposition leader Raila Odinga as the People\u2019s President.<\/p>\n

He claimed he was sedated and forcefully deported to Canada on March 28, 2018.<\/p>\n

“I was dragged, assaulted, drugged and forcefully flown to Dubai,” Miguna wrote in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n

This was the second time he was taken out of the country to Canada, a country he also holds legal citizenship.<\/p>\n

The government insisted that he was not a Kenyan citizen.<\/p>\n

The second deportation followed his return after the first one on February 7 the same year.<\/p>\n

The government imposed red alerts after the second deportation, effectively making it impossible for the outspoken lawyer to travel back to Kenya.<\/p>\n

Miguna claimed his passport was confiscated and destroyed and subsequent court orders to issue him with a new passport or travel documents were ignored by the Jubilee administration.<\/p>\n

Top state officials including Interior CS Fred Matiang’i, PS Karanja Kibicho and then director of Immigration Gordon Kihalangwa were held in contempt for failing to facilitate Miguna’s return.<\/p>\n

But on September 20 this year, Miguna said the Ruto administration sent him a new passport and promised to lift the red alerts.<\/p>\n

“1687 days after Uhuru Kenyatta, Raila Odinga, Fred Matiang’i, Karanja Kibicho and G Kihalangwa conspired to illegally seize and destroy my Kenyan Passport, President William Ruto has had a new one delivered to me. Waiting for the lifting of red alerts,” he said.<\/p>\n

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