Ministry explains why Miguna was deported

Residents of Kanyilum village in Nyando Kisumu County, the village home of the outspoken member of the outlawed National Resistance Movement Miguna Miguna in a demonstration on February 7th 2018 over the deportation of their son to Canada. [Photo by Collins Oduor/Standard]

The State yesterday defended its decision to deport lawyer Miguna Miguna.

In a statement signed by the Ministry of Interior spokesman, Mwenda Njoka, the Government said it relied on the old Kenya Constitution, which was repealed in 2010 following the promulgation of the new Constitution, to deprive Miguna of his birthright as the former supreme law did not allow dual citizenship.