•The Kenya airways plane carrying the outspoken lawyer landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International airport Thursday morning.
•Miguna had announced that he will arrive at the Airport at 6 am.
Lawyer Miguna Miguna has finally arrived in Kenya.
The Kenya airways plane carrying the outspoken lawyer landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International airport Thursday morning.
Miguna had announced that he will arrive at the Airport at 6 am.
His arrival into the country comes after years of exile in Canada.
He was forced out of the country in 2018 and has since not been able to get back into the country despite several attempts.
Court orders instructing he be allowed into the country were ignored by Former President Uhuru Kenyatta's regime.
Red alerts were also imposed against him thus blocking his chances of travelling back.
The alerts were however lifted after President William Ruto took power, Miguna announced.
"The government of William Ruto and Rigathi Gachagua has lifted the Red Alerts Uhuru Kenyatta illegally imposed against me with the connivance of Raila Odinga.
"My arrival: October 20 at 6am. The Rule of law, fearlessness, persistence and focus have prevailed," Miguna said in a tweet on October 12.
The self-proclaimed National Resistance Movement (NRM) leader was at loggerheads with the Jubilee administration following his role in the unofficial swearing-in of then-opposition leader Raila Odinga as the People’s President.
He claimed he was sedated and forcefully deported to Canada on March 28, 2018.
"I was dragged, assaulted, drugged and forcefully flown to Dubai," Miguna wrote in a Facebook post.
This was the second time he was taken out of the country to Canada, a country he also holds legal citizenship.
The government insisted that he was not a Kenyan citizen.
The second deportation followed his return after the first one on February 7 of the same year.
The government imposed red alerts after the second deportation, effectively making it impossible for the outspoken lawyer to travel back to Kenya.
Miguna claimed his passport was confiscated and destroyed and subsequent court orders to issue him with a new passport or travel documents were ignored by the Jubilee administration.
Top state officials including Interior CS Fred Matiang'i, PS Karanja Kibicho and then director of Immigration Gordon Kihalangwa were held in contempt for failing to facilitate Miguna's return.
But on September 20 this year, Miguna said the Ruto administration sent him a new passport and promised to lift the red alerts.
"1687 days after Uhuru Kenyatta, Raila Odinga, Fred Matiang'i, Karanja Kibicho and G Kihalangwa conspired to illegally seize and destroy my Kenyan Passport, President William Ruto has had a new one delivered to me. Waiting for the lifting of red alerts," he said.