Miguna to be quizzed over ICC claims

The Director of Public Prosecutions wants Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s former aide Miguna Miguna questioned on claims he had evidence on Kenya’s post-election violence.

Mr Miguna had on Saturday, during the launch of his book, Peeling Back the Mask, said he was privy to the ODM campaign strategies and was present when the party declared that the 2007 General Election was a contest of 41 tribes against one.

“I can take every leader to The Hague, they should actually kiss my feet... They actually begged me to go back to office when they knew that I could spill the beans,” he said in Nairobi.

Responding to DPP Keriako Tobiko’s order, Mr Miguna said: “Does Tobiko or Iteere (Police Commissioner) work for the ICC? How does he know I haven’t spoken with the ICC? Jokers! That’s all I can say for now!”

Meanwhile, Mr Odinga on Monday came out fighting against damaging allegations in Peeling Back the Mask.

In his blow by blow response written by close aide Sarah Elderkin, Mr Odinga attacks Miguna’s character, describing him as a man operating in a “dense cloud of self-delusion”.

In the first of responses titled “Miguna: The Untold Story”, that is published in full in this newspaper, journalist Elderkin, quoting a High Court judge, describes Mr Miguna as a man living in a “mental darkroom”.

Mr Odinga’s supporters also released a series of statements claiming Mr Miguna’s book was part of a plot aimed at blocking him from winning the presidency.

“As part of this campaign, Mr Miguna Miguna’s new book recycles past unsubstantiated allegations against the Prime Minister without offering a shred of evidence that could shed any new light,” the PM’s office said in a statement signed by spokesman Dennis Onyango.

Ms Elderkin’s detailed response talks of Mr Miguna’s life in Canadian exile where he was acquitted of a charge of sexual molestation.

It also refers to the case Mr Miguna filed challenging his dismissal from the PM’s office, and critical remarks by Mr Justice Mohamed Warsame.

The judge said Mr Miguna was a man “who exhibits mental and emotional fits in his defence of issues” and “living in (a) mental darkroom.”

The Friends of Raila lobby group also claimed that the book was a wider political scheme. Imenti Central MP Gitobu Imanyara said:

“The book is a PNU and G7 project against Mr Odinga and this can be seen by the positive response from the camps in contrast to the same they accorded John Githongo’s book.”

In a separate response, National Heritage minister William ole Ntimama dared Mr Miguna to substantiate his claims or face investigations for “malicious allegations”.

He said Mr Miguna was a bitter man on a revenge mission following his sacking from the PMs office.

Separately, ODM’s aspirant for the Nairobi governor’s seat, Dr Evans Kidero, demanded that Mr Miguna present his evidence to the Criminal Investigation Department.

Reports by Tim Wanyonyi, Bernard Namunane, Abiud Ochieng’, Leonard Mutinda and Esther Mwangi