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Canadian-based Kenyan lawyer Miguna Miguna has defended an online campaign fundraising cash for his flight tickets back to Kenya.
According to Miguna, he has spent so much money trying to come back home on different occasions adding that it’s only fair to let his supporters help him.
“They are honest Kenyans trying to raise funds legally from those willing to give freely in order to accord me the homecoming they are planning.
“There is nothing dishonest about that. I only associate with people of integrity. And this is integrity,” Miguna stated.
Miguna defended himself saying that most people would do the same if they were in his position.
“You wouldn’t say the same thing if your house was maliciously destroyed by explosives detonated by State Goons; you were tortured; illegally detained then forced out of your country of birth for five years, and you have spent more than $30,000 of your own money trying to return home,” he remarked.
The vocal lawyer on Wednesday, September 28, announced that he would be landing in Kenya on October 20.
He has continuously expressed his optimism about returning to Kenya, four years after he was deported to Canada under controversial circumstances.
Miguna’s tribulations started after the mock swearing-in of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga as the “people’s president” in January 2018.
He was thereafter deported on grounds that he was in the country illegally.
6 months ago H.E President William Ruto had promised (while he was still the Deputy President) that exiled lawyer Miguna Miguna will be allowed back to Kenya if he becomes the 5th president.
In an interview on Voice of America, Ruto said that Miguna has not committed any offense to be blocked from coming back to his homeland.
He said that if the exiled lawyer broke the law, then he should be prosecuted in Kenya.
“We will return Miguna Miguna home because he is a Kenyan, he has no offence…and if he has one, he should be brought home and be charged according to the law. I do not see the need of having refugees in our country yet our own has been made a refugee in Canada.”
Last year Miguna Maiguna attempted to fly back to Kenya but his trip was cut short in Germany. He was not allowed to board a flight to Nairobi at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport.
Miguna is a dual citizen of Kenya and Canada. BY MPASHO NEWS