Embattled lawyer Miguna Miguna, on Thursday, March 12, claimed that President Uhuru Kenyatta has instigated banks to block him from sending money electronically to his relatives in Kenya.
In a lengthy post on social media, Miguna detailed that since his deportation in 2018, he has found it difficult to send money to his family members in Kenya with the latest incident occurring on Wednesday, March 11.
In the first incident, the professional barrister based in Canada detailed that he discovered he, together with his close associates, had been blocked from transacting on electronic money transfer systems.
"On March 9, 2018, they blocked me from PayPal: told them (Paypal) that I was a 'terrorist leader'. They have today blocked me and close associates from all electronic money transfer systems in Kenya.
"But no matter what they do out of their cowardice and desperation, I wish to underline this to patriots, freedom fighters and revolutionaries: Miguna will never surrender," narrated Miguna on Tuesday, March 10.
On Thursday, the lawyer brought to light yet another incident in which he sent money to one of his friends to service a car Miguna's wife had used. Shortly after the funds were received, the friend received a notification that his account was blocked.
"This is the message PayPal sent to my friend after locking his account immediately he had received $200CAD to service the vehicle my wife used to attend her father's funeral in January 2020.
"My friend had only used his PayPal account twice in a span of two years. He only bought two books on Amazon. The only "suspicious" transaction, it would appear, was my $200CAD for the service of my vehicle which Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and George Kinoti had attempted to impound earlier," he noted.
He further blamed President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga for his family's hardship to access the funds claiming that they ordered the banks to blacklist him.
"I've just discovered that Uhuru Kenyatta is so desperate that he has blocked me from sending money to anyone including my relatives, friends or caretakers in Kenya," he added.
Miguna has had his fair share of frustrations with the country's authorities with the worst being his deportation in March 2018.
His latest attempt to come back to Kenya in aborted making him spends several days in Europe as the government claimed he was free to come - he eventually resolved to return to Canada where he is also a citizen.
