Miguna
disowns Facebook account
Miguna
disowns Facebook account
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By
Stadard Digital Reporter
Former advisor to Prime
Minister Raila Odinga Miguna Miguna has disowned a Facebook account bearing his
names, images, book promos and video clips and asked the public to ‘ignore and
treat it as mischievous.’
In the alleged
posts on his ‘Facebook page’ Miguna had answered issues raised by veteran
journalist Sarah Elderkin about his relations with Raila while he served as
advisor on coalition affairs.
Miguna clarified: “Let me also make it clear
that I do not have a Facebook account, have never used that platform to
communicate and have no intentions of doing so any time soon. Consequently,
purported Facebook publications bearing my name should be ignored as
mischievous.”
Miguna said he and his family arrived safely in Toronto Canada and
recanted media reports that he fled into exile or was running away from
justice.
Said Miguna: “I am particularly disturbed by fake and false media
reports that I had fled into exile. Some desperate political goons for hire
have even claimed that I have ‘fled from justice.’ There have been suggestions
that I have fled because of law suits and potential arrest. By the time I left
Kenya, I had not been served with any legal notices or law suits. In any event,
neither could have prevented me from traveling.”
The author of Peeling Back the Mask said “I boarded my flight at
the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on July 16, 2012, like any other
passenger.”
In response to the Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko,
Miguna said “I have earned a living practicing law for more than 15 years.
Therefore, a lawsuit isn’t something I run away from. Nor would I be scared of
an incompetent, misguided and delusional political announcement to the media by
the director of public prosecutions that I should record a statement with the
Kenya Police.”
He argued the DPP has no mandate over the International Criminal
Court.
“Instead of issuing threats to me - someone he considers a
potential witness – the Witness Protection Act compels him to provide me with
protection. Threatening me over the media is a clear breach. Consequently, I
will treat his politically motivated statement with the contempt it deserves.”
Miguna was not happy with the burning of his effigy in Nyando and
remarked; “When I see ravenous mobs burn my effigy, bury a coffin symbolizing
my death and threatening me, my immediate and extended family merely because I
wrote a book that they perceive to be critical of their political deity even
though, in all likelihood, they might not have read; it demonstrates a level of
intolerance, ignorance and base loyalty to certain political personages in a
manner that cannot be positive.”
He accused the PM of failing to deter his fanatical supporters
from acts of intolerance.
Said he: “Chillingly, as my effigy and ‘coffin’ were being burnt
and buried in a mock funeral in Nyando by Raila’s fanatics, the Prime Minister
failed to see the need to restrain his supporters. He didn’t openly call for
peaceful and reasoned debates as we would expect of someone claiming to be a
statesman.”
He added: “As a mob was holding my funeral
procession, calling for my ‘deportation to Canada’, threatening my brother and
his family, Raila’s intellectual groupies were unleashing a coordinated assault
on my character and reputation through the media.”
Miguna reiterated that “Raila must be audited, vetted and weighed
thoroughly for his record in public life before he can be found to have
satisfied the requirements for election.”
On Sarah Eklderkin; “I don’t have the time, interest or the
intention of arguing with Sarah over a book she has clearly not read. She
answers herself at pages 496-498 of my book as well as in her article, “Keep It
Real and Keep It Balanced” published in the May 19, 2011 issue of the Star
newspaper in which she corroborated each and every claim I have made in Peeling
Back the Mask. Readers should be aware, nonetheless, that I have more than
fifty emails from Sarah confirming the runway corruption in the Prime
Minister’s Office. If I was like Sarah, I would have unleashed them in defense
of myself. But I am not going to bore my readers with details of the rot of and
around.”
Editor’s note:
Following the statement disowning Miguna Miguna’s Facebook account, we wish to
apologise to our readers and Mr Miguna Miguna for erroneously misrepresenting
his views. The Standard Digital also takes this early opportunity to apologise
to Ms Sarah Elderkin for any embarrassment caused by the article. There was no
malicious intention in publishing the article.
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