Interior and Coordination Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang'i now says NASA coalition activist Miguna Miguna was not deported from Kenya during his recent standoff with the government.
Miguna had been detained in a toilet at JKIA's Terminal 2, since Monday, March 26, after he arrived from Canada where he had been deported on February 6. He was later dragged into an Emirates plane to Dubai, three days later.
Appearing before the Parliamentary Committee on National Security to respond to their queries surrounding the Miguna Miguna issue, Matiang'i said: "For the record, let me state as follows: 1. That Miguna was not arrested nor detained at JKIA. 2. The government of Kenya did not seize Miguna's passport at JKIA. He has since admitted to the same."
According to him, Miguna Miguna was not deported but was removed as an undocumented person.
"Deportation applies to persons within Kenyan jurisdiction. Miguna had not been admitted into Kenya."
Accompanied by Interior Chief Administrative Secretary Patrick ole Ntutu, Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho, IG Joseph Boinnet and Immigration Director Gordon Kihalangwa, Matiang'i denied receiving any court order related to the Miguna saga.
"Not a single court order has been served upon my person, the IG or the Ministry PSs," the CS said on Tuesday morning.
Matiang'i, Boinnet and Kihalangwa were convicted and charged for contempt of court and fined Sh200,000 each by High Court Judge, Justice George Odunga following applications by Miguna's lawyers.
Citing the move by Miguna to decline to issue his passport for documentation at JKIA, Matiang'i later said that use of the Kenyan ID as a travel document was only applicable to travel between and within the East Africa Northern Corridor nations of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Southern Sudan.