Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i now says that Miguna Miguna needs to fill a one page document as prescribed in the constitution to regain his Kenyan citizenship.
Speaking during an interview on NTV on Sunday, April 17, CS Matinang'i questioned why the exiled lawyer had refused to fill the document as required by law.
According to CS Matiang'i, Miguna lost his Kenyan Citizenship because the old constitution did not allow dual Citizenship.
"There are two court rulings on how you regain Citizenship after you lost it in the old constitution. When the new constitution was enacted, which provides for dual citizenship, the process was prescribed in the act on how you can regain it.
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"You have to regain your citizenship if you lost it. It means you have to fill a piece of paper so that you get your Kenyan passport or Citizenship as it were. Since that time over 300,000 Kenyans have regained their citizenship. It's as simple as filling a one-page document," CS Matiang'i said.
The Interior CS noted that he was bound by law and there was nothing he could do until he filled the document to regain his Citizenship.
Commenting on the issue of disobeying court orders, CS Matiang'i stated, "We obeyed Miguna Miguna’s court orders to facilitate him to get papers; our ministry of foreign affairs organised to facilitate him to come. Let us not engage in propaganda."
Miguna Miguna's effort to return to Kenya has been futile after being deported on February 6, 2018, following the mock swearing-in of ODM leader Raila Odinga, the then NASA chief, as the People's President at Uhuru Park, Nairobi.
Despite the High court declaring the move to deport Miguna unconstitutional, his first attempt to come back to Kenya was thwarted on March 26, 2018, after he was denied entry upon landing at JKIA.
Since then, a similar effort to return to Kenya has been rebuffed on different grounds including a red alert which he claimed was issued by the Government.
