It is often at election time when questions around nationality come to the fore – when the meaning of citizenship is challenged in its fullest sense of the right to participate in public affairs of a country. There are many well-known cases of politicians whose right to nationality in the country where they wish to stand for office has been brought into question. Some of these have been litigated up to the level of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, but less-well known cases arise with almost every election. Elections also see regular assertions that certain groups of potential voters have been registered to vote even though they are not citizens.
Kenya’s high court has directed that the deported lawyer, Miguna Miguna be allowed back into the country to face his accuser in person. The court through its judge Justice Chacha Mwita said Miguna must physically be present in court on…
Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi held Italian citizenship from October 2000 until January 2017, the Italian town where he was a resident said on Wednesday, jeopardising his hopes of contesting a presidential election later this year. Democratic Republic of Congo’s…
By Daniel Mumbere The Kenyan government has insisted that it did not deport opposition lawyer Miguna Miguna, following last week’s standoff at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the capital Nairobi. Appearing before a Parliamentary Committee on Administration and National…
By Edwin Mutai The Ministry of Interior has petitioned the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) to investigate judges and lawyers who handled the saga surrounding the deportation of Miguna Miguna. Interior secretary Fred Matiang’i…
BY Joseph Omollo Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Fred Matiang’i has soften his stand on the citizenship of lawyer Miguna Miguna. Speaking on Tuesday, Matinag’i said that Miguna is a Kenyan citizen by birth and he was ready to help facilitate…
By Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban Kenyan opposition politician Miguna Miguna has issued an appeal from Dubai where the government forcibly deported him to. In a message posted on his Facebook page, the lawyer said he was stranded in Dubai and…
A Kenyan court fined the interior minister and police chief on Thursday after they defied orders to produce an opposition politician in court, who was instead deported for the second time in two months. A prominent but unelected politician with…
Constitutional Petition No.51 of 2018 Orders: 1. A declaration that the 1st , 2nd and 3rd Respondents have violated Article 10 of the Constitution by failing to adhere to the rule of law in the sense that they have brazenly…
Reacting to the Kenyan authorities’ refusal to let pro-opposition lawyer Miguna Miguna into the country to participate in a judicial proceeding concerning him, and to police beating journalists who turned out to cover Miguna’s return to Kenya at Nairobi’s Jomo…
By Felix Olick Fiery lawyer Miguna Miguna says that for three days he has been held captive in a filthy and cramped toilet since he landed on Monday at JKIA. The self-declared NRM ‘general’, who was dramatically detained after a…