Interview: What Miguna Miguna told BBC from a JKIA toilet
BBC: We are joined by Kenyan opposition politician Miguna Miguna who is still detained at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi now for the third day. Mr. Miguna, can you tell us how the situation is like at this point?
MIGUNA: I have been detained and they are preventing everyone from coming to the place I am in. Nobody is allowed to access me including my lawyers. The time they abducted me, they had not allowed me access to my lawyers.
No family member has been given access to me. Even though they injured my right hand and tore my clothes, they have not given me access to a doctor, they have not given me access to bathroom facilities. I have not taken a shower nor brushed my teeth. I am in a terrible condition.
They have put me in a toilet for the disabled. There is a sink, but it only produces hot water, no cold water and there is nothing else in the room apart from a chair and a bare mattress.
BBC: And so you are locked in this room?
MIGUNA: No, the door is open but they have surrounded the place and I cannot exit. They are here heavily armed with guns.
BBC: What do you want at this point, and what is your lawyer's stand and what will happen next?
MIGUNA: What I want is my right. I have my birthright as a citizen of Kenya and I have a constitutional right as a Kenyan to come in and live Kenya at will, unhampered.
I have a right of conscience and thought. I have a right to be involved in any peaceful political activity I wish to. They want to restrain all those rights by purporting to categorize me as a foreigner. I cannot accept that. I will never be categorized as a foreigner.
I will not allow them to subject me to this cruel and inhumane conditions or treatment because they have guns and I don't have one. Even if they are killing me, I am ready to die in defense of my rights.
BBC: The government says according to the new constitution that there is a process that needs to be followed for you to reapply for a Kenyan passport, to allow you to enter. What is your response to that?
MIGUNA: That is balderdash! That is not constitutional! The constitution I helped draft states that all Kenyans have a right to dual citizenship.
Once a Kenyan is a citizen, they have a right to enter and leave Kenya at will.
Miguna Miguna has already been redoported to Dubai.
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