Kenyan opposition figure claims he was drugged when deported to Dubai after being detained in ‘filthy’ airport toilet
Miguna Miguna was put on an Emirates flight two days after police detained the politician on his return to Kenya
Kenyan opposition politician Miguna Miguna alleges he was drugged and deported to Dubai early Thursday after his attempt to enter Kenya led to him being detained in an airport toilet for more than a day.
Miguna Miguna, targeted in a Kenyan government crackdown amid lingering election tensions, was sent to Dubai even after a court ordered authorities to release him, lawyer Cliff Ombeta said.
Police at the airport roughed up lawyers and forced them to leave when they tried to serve the court order, said another lawyer, James Orengo.
Miguna said in a Facebook post that authorities broke into the Kenyan airport toilet where he had been held and forcibly injected him with a substance and he passed out.
He said he regained consciousness when the Emirates Airline plane arrived in Dubai. Miguna wrote that he refuses to leave the international section of the Dubai airport and he insists that must return to Kenya.
“I will and must return to Kenya as a Kenyan citizen by birth as various courts have ordered,” wrote Miguna on Facebook.