Emerging details indicate that Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho was fully involved in the preparations leading to opposition leader Raila Odinga’s mock presidential inauguration earlier in the year.
According to controversial lawyer and former Raila ally Miguna Miguna, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Governor wanted Raila to be sworn-in at the Coast and not Nairobi.
In his new memoir; Treason: The Case Against Tyrants & Renegades, Miguna claims that Joho, during a meeting in Nairobi’s Westlands areas on 28, November 2017, proposed that the event is held in Kilifi.
According to Miguna, the plan was to depend on the protection of locals should the police have attempted to interfere with the event.
“He (Joho) said that the Mijikenda were warriors, just like the Turkana, Pokot or Samburu, and that if the police or any other state security agents tried to disrupt the event in Kilifi, ‘the Mijikenda would unleash hellfire on them,’’ reads an excerpt from the book, according to the Citizen Digital.
Miguna adds that Raila’s oath of speech was composed by himself at former Machakos Senator Johnstone Muthama’s home on December 9, 2017.
The speech was later reviewed by Muthama and Siaya Senator James Orengo, both of whom are lawyers.
The oath was later administered by Advocate and Ruaraka lawmaker Tom Kajwang at Uhuru Park in Nairobi on January 30, in an event that was witnessed by thousands of opposition supporters.