Kenya has deported opposition supporter and lawyer, Miguna Miguna, following his role in the unofficial swearing-in of opposition leader Raila Odinga as “the people’s president”.<\/p>\n
Mr Miguna has boarded a flight to take him to Canada, where he is a citizen.<\/p>\n
The government says Mr Miguna renounced his Kenyan nationality, which he denies.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the mock inauguration, the government took Kenyan TV channels off air so they couldn’t broadcast it.<\/p>\n
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Mr Odinga boycotted last year’s election re-run, saying it would be rigged in favour of President Uhuru Kenyatta.<\/p>\n
He and his supporters consider him the rightful leader of Kenya.<\/p>\n
What was the ‘swearing-in’ about?<\/strong> He lost, but the country’s Supreme Court said the election wasn’t transparent, prompting a re-run in October.<\/p>\n Mr Odinga declined to enter this race, saying nothing had changed, and Mr Kenyatta won 98% of the vote, with only 39% turnout.<\/p>\n But after letting Mr Kenyatta govern for two months, he held his unofficial swearing-in ceremony at Uhuru Park in Nairobi on 30 January.<\/p>\n During an oath signed and conducted by Mr Miguna, Mr Odinga declared himself “the people’s president”.<\/p>\n President Kenyatta took three TV channels off air, with only two resuming broadcasting this week – and only on subscription services, not free-to-air.<\/p>\n How Kenyans are coping without TV<\/strong> Two days later, they broke down Mr Miguna’s door in a dawn raid and also detained him.<\/p>\n Mr Miguna says he was then kept “in unlawful incommunicado detention for five days under the most horrendous, cruel and inhumane conditions imaginable”.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, he appeared before a court outside Nairobi and was charged with “being present and consenting to the administration of an oath to commit a capital offence, namely treason”.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kenya has deported opposition supporter and lawyer, Miguna Miguna, following his role in the unofficial swearing-in of opposition leader Raila Odinga as “the people’s president”. Mr Miguna has boarded a flight to take him to Canada, where he is a citizen. The government says Mr Miguna renounced his Kenyan nationality, which he denies. Ahead of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":399355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[592,16910,1886],"yoast_head":"\n
\nIn August, Mr Odinga ran for president against Mr Kenyatta.<\/p>\n
\nOn 31 January, police arrested TJ Kajwang, a lawyer who witnessed the ceremony.<\/p>\n