Miguna Miguna has to reapply to be a Kenyan citizen, Matiang’i maintains
Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i has said Miguna Miguna is free to come back to Kenya after reapplying for his "lost" citizenship.
Matiang'i said Miguna ceased to be a Kenyan citizen when he acquired Canadian citizenship.
"In the old Constitution, you could not be allowed to have dual citizenship unlike now. Miguna refused to sign a piece of one-page paper to regain his Kenyan citizenship.
"Miguna has to reapply to be a Kenyan citizen," Matiang'i said when he appeared on a local television station on Sunday evening.
Matiang'i said up to 3000 Kenyans have reapplied to be considered for dual citizenship since the promulgation of the current constitution.
"We've availed registration in all Kenyan embassies worldwide. The process is so simple because one is just required to fill out a piece of paper and send it to us to be processed. It takes minutes to do," he said.
Miguna has always maintained that he has never lost his citizenship since he was born in Kenya.
"I’m not visiting the Kenyan Embassy to apply for citizenship which I never lost. The Court has once more affirmed that I am a Kenyan by birth who must enter Kenya as a Kenyan upon presentation of my National ID card.
“The embassy has been ordered to issue a travel document," Miguna said in November 2021.
He was deported in 2018 and his two attempts to come back to Kenya have failed.
