By Our
Correspondent, NAIROBI Kenya
The High
Court has issued orders compelling the state to facilitate the entry of Miguna
Miguna into Kenya on Tuesday.
Justice
Weldon Korir on Monday said the Director of Immigration, DCI and National
Police Service should not interfere in any way with Miguna's entry into the country.
Korir
also ordered that Registrar of the High Court release to Miguna's lawyer or an
authorised officer of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) a
copy of his passport.
In
a statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry confirmed
it will comply with court orders directing it to allow the controversial
Toronto-based lawyer back into the country.
Government
Spokesman Cyrus Oguna on Sunday said the state would not interfere with
Miguna's return to his motherland.
The clearance now paves the way
for his return following his disgraced deportation in February 2018.
Oguna said President Uhuru
Kenyatta’s declaration that the firebrand lawyer would be allowed into the
country suffices for his peaceful entry.
“None
other than the chief executive officer of the country has made a public
pronouncement on the matter. That remains the government’s position and nothing
has changed at all,” he told the Star.
On
Monday last week, the President waded into the issue and hinted that the
Toronto-based barrister would be allowed into the country if he returned this
month.
“Nobody
has been told not to speak his mind,” President Kenyatta stressed during the
burial of multiparty democracy crusader Charles Rubia in Kandara, Murang’a.
“You
can walk on the road and even shout at the top of your voice. I have heard that
others even want to board flights and come to say what they want to say, let
them come. That is their freedom.”
The
government’s change of heart against one of its fiercest critics comes as
Miguna announced he would land at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport,
Nairobi, at 9 pm on Tuesday.
The lawyer was deported to Canada
after spending five days in police custody for presiding over the swearing-in
of ODM leader Raila Odinga as the people’s president on January 30, 2018.
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