Miguna Miguna is apparently stuck in Europe trying to return to Kenya.
The government instructed European airlines that he has been denied a 'boarding certificate' without stating any reason. This has been inaccurately referred to as a 'Red Alert', which is actually an arrest warrant issued by a government through Interpol.
The government does not seem to want Miguna arrested. They just do not want him in Kenya. But it is wrong to banish any citizen from Kenya, however troublesome.
Everyone knows that Miguna is a difficult and uncompromising person. He has insulted almost every senior politician in Kenya. He was a close adviser to Raila Odinga when he was Prime Minister but then viciously turned on him in 2012 in his book Peeling Back the Mask.
But disrupting the status quo is no reason to deny any citizen the right to return to his homeland. He should be handed back his Kenyan passport and allowed to board a flight home, as the courts have ordered numerous times.
And next time, he should book a ticket on Kenya Airways, the national carrier, which hopefully could ignore the nonsense about a 'boarding certificate'.
Quote of the day: “Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.”
Niels Bohr
The Danish quantum physicist died on November 18, 1962
