Lawyer Miguna Miguna on a hospital bed at Dubai airport. Credit/Standard Digital
Raila Odinga has abandoned me, Miguna cries out
Main opposition figure in Kenya, Raila Odinga, for whom other elements such as Mugina Miguna, are being chastised by the government seems not to bother about the wellbeing of opposition followers any longer.
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Miguna, who is spending the third day detained at the Dubai International Airport, further claimed that Raila is ‘dining’ with his oppressors while he continues to suffer.
“…Raila Odinga cannot and should not be enjoying Easter abroad and dining with the tyrants when the person who swore him in as the People’s President is being ‘murdered’ by those who stole his election,” a post on his Facebook page reads.
Few weeks ago, President Uhuru Kenyatta and Odinga made-up their differences while opposition supporters were being held in isolation. Odinga said himself and Kenyatta had agreed to mend fences in the interest of the Kenyan people.
Miguna has accused Opposition leader Raila Odinga of failing to help him return to Kenya.
After months of angst over the election of Kenyatta which has led to loss of lives and property, Odinga visited Kenyatta and they both promised to sheath their swords.
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A week later, Odinga has begun to upstage the National Super Alliance (Nasa) on whose platform his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) wrested power with Kenyatta. Major Nasa figures like Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka, Moses Masika Wetang’ula and Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi will always remember the date — Friday, March 9, 2018 — when, like all other Kenyans, they learnt through the media that Kenyatta and Odinga were holding talks at Harambee House, Nairobi, without their knowledge.
An intra-coalition game of tit-for-tat ensued, and on Thursday, Mr Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) made the first public move to solidify its role as the main opposition by attempting to remove Mr Wetang’ula as the Leader of Minority in the Senate and replace him with Siaya Senator James Orengo.
Mr Wetang’ula, in essence, becomes the first casualty of the handshake between President Kenyatta and Mr Odinga, which has entrenched suspicions between the alliance partners.