Lawyer Miguna Miguna now claims that opposition leader Raila Odinga’s People’s President coronation earlier in the year was to be done in neighbouring Tanzania in case it flopped in Kenya.
In his new book; ‘Treason: The Case Against Tyrants & Renegades’, Miguna claims that Raila planned to swear himself in at the Kenyan Embassy in Tanzania if he could not manage to do it in a public place in the country.
The plan-B was however thwarted by Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli who stood against the former Premier’s plan to force himself in power.
Miguna who was then part of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) which was planning the coronation says that Siaya Senator James Orengo was tasked with the responsibility of getting Magufuli’s consent with regards to the plan.
“According to Orengo, Magufuli believed that leadership was ‘a gift from God’ and that if God had not given Raila that gift, there was no reason to pursue our plans and that Raila should forget about being sworn in as The People’s President,” reads an excerpt from the book, according to the Citizen Digital.
“In other words, Magufuli was of the view that God did not want Raila to be the president of Kenya. I found such statements to be outrageous. God had not manipulated the August 8, 2017, General Election,'' adds Miguna.
Raila was on January 30 sworn in in a mock ceremony in Nairobi’s Uhuru Park, in response to President Uhuru Kenyatta re-election which he (Raila) and his allies disapproved.
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in the presence of hundreds of Raila’s allies and thousands of supporters.
And though the government warned that the coronation would amount to high treason which is punishable by death, Raila remains a free man.