Government Now Claims Canada Intervened to Have its Citizen Miguna Released

Miguna Miguna was deported after the Canadian embassy in Nairobi asked for 'their' citizen, Interior ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka has revealed.

"The Canadian government last week asked about their citizen saying they wanted him released. So, we not only released him but took him back to the country," Njoka said.Njoke revealed this to the Star Newspaper on Wednesday. He further reiterated that Miguna renounced the Kenyan citizenship immediately he applied for a Canadian passport."The moment he got his Canadian citizenship in the 1990's and it is illegal for a Kenyan to get another citizenship. He automatically renounced the Kenyan citizenship," he said.Njoka said Miguna should have registered to have a dual citizenship, something that he did not do and hence the deportation."When he came back and wanted to vie, he should have followed a process like registering the dual citizenship holder which he never did," he added.But Miguna, in a statement from Amsterdam, said he has never renounced his citizenship."I have never, ever renounced my Kenyan citizenship and will never do that. I’ve never even contemplated it. The constitution is crystal clear: no one can invalidate or purport to cancel the citizenship of a Kenyan-born citizen," Miguna said.