Miguna Miguna has been very outspoken against the presidency of Uhuru Kenyatta. Miguna Miguna stood next to Raila Odinga during the event held at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, it is still not clear if he will be arraigned in court today.
Kenya Police Arrest Major Actors on Odinga’s Inauguration
Kenyan Police have arrested Miguna Miguna, the self-confessed General of opposition, National Resistance Movement at his Runda home over Tuesday’s ‘swearing-in’ of Raila Odinga as people’s president.
Miguna Miguna has been very outspoken against the presidency of Uhuru Kenyatta. Miguna Miguna stood next to Raila Odinga during the event held at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, it is still not clear if he will be arraigned in court today.
His arrest comes a day after the arrest Ruaraka Member of Parliament Tom Joseph Kajwang who was charged with participating in an illegal assembly and administering an illegal oath, protesting Kenyatta’s victory.
The mock ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of Odinga supporters in Nairobi to protest Kenyatta’s election victory last year, an election Odinga contends was rigged.
Interior Minister Fred Matiangi said Wednesday that the TV stations and some radio stations would remain shut down while the government investigated their role in what he said was an attempt to “subvert and overthrow” Kenyatta’s government.
On Thursday, however, High Court Judge Chacha Mwita ordered the government to restore the operations of Citizen Television, the Kenya Television Network and Nation Television News. He also ordered the government not to interfere with the stations until a case disputing their shutdown had been heard.
Odinga told reporters that democracy in Kenya was “under serious attack” and called the country’s ruling party “certainly mad.”
Kenya’s Supreme Court invalidated Kenyatta’s August victory when Odinga said the vote counts had been changed in Kenyatta’s favor after the electoral commission’s computer system was hacked. The court ordered a new election in October that Kenyatta won.