The Department of Immigration has given more information on the controversy surrounding the deportation of lawyer Miguna Miguna to Canada.
According to the Immigration department, Migina is not a Kenyan citizen.In a sworn affidavit to the court on Friday, Director Gordon Kihalangwa said Miguna had fled the country as a political refugee.He further said that the lawyer was illegally issued a passport when he was the former PM's advisor.Kihalangwa said that fled to Ottawa in Canada as a political refugee.According to Kihalangwa, Miguna applied for a Kenyan passport in 1987 to enable him to travel to Havana, Cuba for the 15th Congress of International Union of Students and the World Student Conference as a student leader."The request was, however, rejected and in December same year the department wrote back to Miguna informing him of the decision.""The applicant in 2009 made another application for a Kenyan passport at the Kisumu passport control office. Upon receipt of the application, the late Gerald Kajwang, who then the minister in charge of immigration, approved that a duplicate file is opened at the Nyayo House, headquarters," the affidavit reads in part.The immigration boss said that Miguna at all time traveled in and out of the country using several Canadian passports numbers MJ393885 and WK944502.He said that Miguna was deported following an order by Interior CS Fred Matiang'i.The outsp[oken lawyer was arrested last week for his role in the swearing-in of NASA leader Raila Odinga.