Police bar protestors from Miguna’s rural home

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NYANDO, Kenya, Jul 17 – Police in Kisumu on Tuesday blocked over 500 demonstrators from accessing the rural home of Miguna Miguna in Nyando where they wanted to burn his effigy and ‘bury’ him.

The protesters were enraged by the contents of Miguna’s book ‘Peeling Back the Mask’ in which they argue he has accused Prime Minister Raila Odinga falsely and tarnished his name with unfounded information.

“We are angry at Miguna Miguna who is accusing Raila falsely. We are urging him to withdraw his accusations as he is destroying our peace. We the people of Nyando have come out to show him that we are not backing him,” one of the protesters said.

The demonstration which was organised by Nyando Member of Parliament Fred Outa, former MP Otieno Karan and other legislators started at the Ahero trading centre, some five kilometres from Miguna’s home.

Police intercepted the demonstrators two kilometres from their destination and told them they were not allowed to trespass into private property.

They peacefully obeyed the orders and returned to the Ahero shopping centre.

They urged him to go ahead and record statements on the accusations he has made.

“We are urging him to come out and substantiate what he is saying. He should not have waited until when he was out of office to spill the beans,” the demonstrator added.

“We made for him a coffin to ‘bury’ him. This will make us forget about him as he is a disgrace to our community,” the demonstrators asserted.

The protesters were blocked before they got to Miguna’s home/COURTESY-STANDARD GROUP

In an interview with Capital FM News on Monday Miguna said that he would not be cowed by threats.

“If somebody wants to kill me they should come forward. Come baby, come! Bring it on, I’m game!” he bragged.

The former advisor has caused uproar on the revelations that he is privy to information that could show how some top ODM officials were aware of the events of the 2008 post-election violence that left 1,333 people dead and 350,000 displaced.

On Monday, the Director of Public Prosecution Keriako Tobiko directed the Police Commissioner to take statements from Miguna over the allegations.

The Chief of Staff at the Office of the Prime Minister, Caroli Omondi, has already instructed his lawyer to file a case against Miguna for defamation.

In a letter to top city lawyer George Oraro, Omondi also wants action taken against the Nation Media Group for publishing allegations made by Miguna in his book.

Miguna Miguna left the country Monday night on a worldwide tour to promote his explosive new book, which reveals the intrigues and power games at the PM’s office where he worked until last year.

His first stop will be Canada where he stayed from 1997 until 2007 before he came back to the country as an advisor to Odinga.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/thenairobian Tony Tone

    Can someone get these idlers jobs so they can be busy and stop being used?

    • Smart Kenyan

      Are they the only idlers in the whole country? there are idlers everywhere even in the dessert, hehehe…..but, they are idlers with some laziness and more sense than these ones here

  • kedgimibadhi

    What brings violence are actions that are taken without due regard for the rule of law. Miguna Miguna could be having genuine points but he should not disregard the rule of law in whatever he is doing. The law protects everyone and anybody who decides otherwise, would be courting for serious violence. MM is defiant to the law castodians while at the same time asking them to protect him. The 2007 violence could not have occurred had Kibaki taken caution not to unilaterally appoint election officials without following the due process of the law. He is already at it again. Then as if they had a secret agreement with then leader of opposition Uhuru Kenyatta, he defected at the last hour to support Kibaki. The anger was already building amongst the law abiding Kenyans. Then came the elction rigging, it started the fire. Unfortunately Kibaki is at it again. Coming back to MM, he will not see the end of the tunnel so long as he remains elusive to the rule of law which he claims to be defending being a barrister, a mockery of that title. There is a simple rule that one should not abuse his colleagues with whom they share the same profession, more so when there is no reason for doing that, MM has abused all his colleagues across the board. Moi ruled for 24 years but there was never a violence of the magnitude experienced in 2007. Why? Because Moi strictly followed the rule of law untill section 2A of the constitution was reppealed. Following the law strictly kept the citizens restrained from taking actions that would be contrary to the law during the reign of Moi. So let not anyone insinuate that violence si coming from one tribe. There is no province in the republic of Kenya which has experienced violence both before and after independence than Central province. It is well documented. To avoid future violence, whether from a tribe, a province or a country, let us strictly follow the rule of law. The PM is a person who respects the rule of law and has gone to court more than three times as a witness since he became the PM. Many senior people have been ordered to record statements with the police on allegations they made, a recent case being Jakoyo Midiwo. Why not Miguna Miguna. Hate speeches will only result in bringing down the country down to its knees. All political arguments geared towards dodging the rule of law will just backfire. Let us uphold the rule of law and not to use it partially, and stop spreading against any tribe across the action. Leaders should also stop making actions that appear to be guided by tribalism and not law.

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