This archive report was first published on 18 August 2019.
On August 18, 2019, a surprising turn of events unfolded in the Kenyan political landscape as Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen took to Twitter to apologize to lawyer Miguna Miguna.
Murkomen's apology came in response to Miguna's allegations that he was shy to apologize openly to the lawyer following his inhuman deportation to Canada on March 28, 2018.
‘I apologize on behalf of your ‘friends’ who like Judas sold you for 30 pieces of silver and now are absorbed in filling their stomachs at your expense. Pole on behalf of all human rights hypocrites’ stated the tweet.
He further added, ‘I apologize on behalf of those who kept silent when you went through untold suffering.’
Miguna had previously tweeted, ‘He is trying to repent without actually doing so in words. Murkomen publicly apologize to me, first, then I may forgive you and endorse your correct message to Makau Mutua who has lost any shred of integrity many believed he had.’
Dr. Miguna Miguna was deported to Canada after spending more than 72 hours in a tiny room he described as a ‘toilet’ near Terminal 2 at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.
Despite a court order directing the government to release him from detention, Miguna was badly treated and forcefully deported.
