Ford Kenya party leader and NASA co-principal Moses Wetangula addresses the media alongside party officials at past. [Photo/@FordKenyaSimba]
Ford Kenya party leader and NASA co-principal Moses Wetangula, has criticised the Jubilee government after it deported self-proclaimed National Resistance Movement (NRM) General, Miguna Miguna.
The lawyer was deported from Kenya to Canada on Tuesday night after being arraigned in court over the controversial swearing-in of NASA leader Raila Odinga. Miguna was presented before Kajiado Law Courts following his arrest on Friday 2.
According to his lawyer John Khaminwa, Miguna was placed into a KLM flight departing from Nairobi for Amsterdam minutes to 10 pm.
The government communication channel, @NEXUSKE confirmed the deportation, saying: "Miguna is headed home. The court ordered he gets released and @InteriorKE obeyed the orders and even assisted him with a flight ticket home. Please note he renewed his Canadian Passport on 16th June 2017."
The deportation came hours after High Court Judge Luka Kimaru barred the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Inspector General (IG) of the police from preferring any criminal charges against him.
On Wednesday morning, Wetangula who is also the Bungoma senator and Senate Minority Leader said the deportation was unlawful.
"A country deports its citizen! What a foolish act! It's against our constitution international law, UN conventions and common sense. A terrifying brutality has descended on our motherland, the beginning of the end," he twitted.
Earlier, Ford Kenya had demanded for the immediate release of Miguna, saying "The malicious detention of @MigunaMiguna and the subversion of law through thwarting court orders, prepares the country to a legal quagmire. Its a recipe for crime."