National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga made calls to President Uhuru Kenyatta during Miguna Miguna's detention at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), sources have revealed.
According to the Opposition leader's allies, he reached out to the President seeking to have him intervene to rescue the embattled lawyer.
The Standard reports that Mr Odinga allegedly did not manage to reach President Kenyatta on his personal line and had to go through one of the President's aides.
The source who spoke to journalists further stated that the President assured the NASA chief that he would immediately look into the matter.
[caption caption="File image of Miguna with his lawyers when he arrived at JKIA on March 26"]
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"As if someone was monitoring the conversation, immediately Raila ended the call, a team of plainclothes policemen arrived and violently bundled Miguna out from where he was standing, in the full glare of the lawyers and Raila himself," the source narrated.
The former Prime Minister was, hours later, seen leaving the airport leaving Miguna in his woes.
He came under fire with his supporters who claimed he had not done anything to help Miguna secure his freedom.
On Tuesday Miguna spent his second night at the airport under detention despite a High Court order directing the immigration department to release him.
Miguna is protesting the immigration department's directive mandating him to apply for a six-month visa. Miguna holds that he is a Kenyan citizen, not a visitor.
"Our position is that he is a citizen; the courts upheld it. This means the status quo maintains.
"What do the courts say order number two?... that he should be provided with documents so he can enter the country, orders didn’t say apply. Why? Because they had destroyed his documents," his lawyer, Cliff Ombeta, argued.
[caption caption="Miguna Miguna with Mr Odinga at JKIA on March 26"]
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