A day like this, opposition leader Raila Odinga was sworn-in as the people’s president bringing possible treason charges to the fore.
He’s swearing in was the genesis of Lawyer Miguna Miguna’s nightmare from being arrested to deported.
However,the controversial lawyer has exposed the details of the swearing in.
In his book, Treason: The case Against Tyrants and Renegades, Miguna lays bare details behind the mock swearing-in of Opposition leader Raila Odinga as People’s President in January 2018.
Miguna paints Raila as a coward who opposed his own swearing.
According to Miguna , the opposition leader had developed cold feet over the proposal to have him installed as the People’s President in protest at President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election.
“Raila’s unravelling was now the immediate problem facing our reenergized struggle for the liberation of Kenya. Despite their legendary cowardice, Raila’s colleagues (coalition partners) carried no weight with the people,” Miguna documents in the book launched in Toronto, Canada, on Saturday.
Before Miguna administered the oath, he says cowardly Raila requested Tanzania President John Magufuli to provide a venue in his county but he declined.
Donned in a white and a black hat, Raila swore by the Bible and signed documents.
The oath was administered by Ruaraka MP TJ Kajwang and former Nairobi gubernatorial race contender Miguna Miguna.
The Central Committee comprising Miguna, Orengo, Wanjigi, Muthama and others had planned a series of disruptive campaigns including the burning of Kenyatta’s portraits nationwide, replacing them with Odinga’s.
A well-choreographed campaign to bring business in Nairobi to a standstill through weekly protests had been identified as a major strategy to paralyze government operations.
According to Miguna, the formation of National Resistance Movement, which was to operate independently from NASA, was a well calculated move to de-link a popular initiative to unseat Kenyatta from Musyoka, Mudavadi, and Wetangula who had expressed reservations over the panned swearing-in of Odinga.