High Court Releases Miguna Miguna on Sh50,000 Bail

The High Court on Friday evening ordered for immediate release of former Nairobi gubernatorial aspirant Miguna Miguna, who was dramatically arrested at his home in Runda, Nairobi.

Issuing the orders, High court Judge James Wakiaga said the self-declared National Super Alliance's National Resistance Movement (NRM) 'general' be freed on a Sh50,000 cash bail.

Justice Wakiaga issued the orders after Miguna's lawyer Nelson Havi moved to court under a certificate of urgency seeking orders to have him released by police on bail.

Havi argued that police are abusing powers to arrest and that they are using the powers to oppress his client.

Police raided and ransacked the lawyer's residence in Runda estate, Nairobi on Friday morning, a day after he dared Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i to arrest him.

Commenting about Miguna's arrest on Friday, Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti said: “He (Miguna) publicly declared that he is the general of NRM, which is already declared a proscribed group. By the time he declared publicly, there was a gazette notice by the minister. How can we let it go? We are law enforcers."

“He also said he is going to lead people to burn portraits of a democratically elected president. Then what do you expect from us? He also confessed he is the one who administered the oath.”