Miguna Miguna during a press conference at Okoa Kenya offices on February 1, 2018. /JACK OWUORMiguna Miguna was on Wednesday night deported to Dubai despite a court order requiring that he be released and produced in court on Thursday.
According to Rarieda MP Otiende Amolo, one of the lawyers representing Miguna, the latter was put on an Emirates EK 722 Dubai-bound flight at around 11pm.
"So they have assaulted Lawyers, defied the court and deported Dr Miguna...I feel helpless and angry as an advocate! Useless as an MP and angry as a Kenyan!!!," Otiende tweeted.
"Miguna Miguna is missing. The toilet Door at the JKIA Terminal 2 was broken and we have no idea where he is," lawyer Cliff Ombeta told the Star.
Lawyers James Orengo, Nelson Havi, Ombeta, and Julie Soweto were roughed up by GSU police officers when they attempted to serve court orders at JKIA.
They were blocked from serving the Immigration department with the order requiring them to release the self-declared NRMKe general.
Miguna had reportedly been confined in one of the washrooms in the terminal wing since his arrival in the country on Monday.
The opposition lawyer refused to board a plane to Dubai where the Immigration department wanted to deport him as an undocumented person on Monday.
Efforts by NASA leader Raila Odinga, Jimi Wanjigi, James Orengo, Nelson Havi and Cliff Ombeta to free him on that day bore no fruits.
Justice George Odunga has convicted Interior CS Fred Matiang’i, Immigration PS Gordon Kihalangwa, and IG Joseph Boinnet for contempt of court.
This followed their defiance to produce Miguna in court for the hearing of the matter where the lawyer wants the state compelled to grant him entry.
"The matter before me is no longer a dispute between the parties but has now reached the level where judicial powers are on trial and the dignity of this court is being questioned.
"This court cannot just fold its arms while the respondents continue to cat walk on its orders," Odunga said.
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