Lawyer Miguna Miguna on Wednesday revealed how he foiled a plan, which he claimed was meant to kill him, before security officials decided to deport him to Canada.
Speaking on Citizen TV's JKL show hosted by Jeff Koinange, Miguna narrated that plain-clothed police officers entered into his home using explosives and abducted him.
After the controversial swearing in ceremony at Uhuru Park, Miguna was aware he was a walking target for the police, thus, he composed a short message that he would send to local and international media informing them of his abduction in case the authorities came for him.
Immediately the explosion destroyed his front door on the day he was arrested, Miguna realised they had come for him and quickly hit the send button on his phone, disseminating his precomposed text.
"I had drafted a text message, to go out as an alert to all reporters that I knew both abroad and in Kenya. The moment I heard the explosion I grabbed my phone and pressed send. The moment that went out, it was on social media, in the media (mainstream), NRM people were making noise and the neighbours were also making noise like crazy," Miguna recalled.
"I think it became inconvenient. The idea was to abduct me. Had they abducted me without anybody knowing, and people discovered days later that I was missing, I would have been killed just like Msando," he told Jeff.
He claimed that the officers who stormed his home belonged to the elite Recce Squad because it is the only unit allowed to use explosives apart from the military.
They bundled him into a vehicle and first took him to Kiambu County. When Miguna asked why the vehicle was headed to Githunguri and not a Nairobi police station, one officer suggested blindfolding him but the rest didn't buy into the idea.
The exiled lawyer had cleverly carried his Canadian and Kenyan passports in his pocket so that at the first opportunity, he would drop them by the road to help trace his whereabouts.
In the evening a team from NRM visited him at the police station in Githunguri accompanied by members of the press and lawyers, among them businessman Jimmy Wanjigi's counsel.
Miguna was pleased to find out that they had obtained court orders for his release, and for the first time since 5am he was given food.
He slammed ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna who took credit for buying the food yet he had not.
At 10 o'clock that night, the officers who had abducted Miguna drove him to another police station in Lari still in Kiambu, where he was locked up again despite the orders for his release.
Miguna spent the night inside a cell where he also had to relieve himself. The following day, the police officers announced that they would to take him to Nairobi.
"Having told the press they were leaving from the front, they brought a vehicle from the back and put me there. They put sirens going to the front...you (media) chased that one to Nairobi when I was being taken in another direction," Miguna told Jeff.
The vehicle Miguna was in went through Kiambu town, to Ruiru and then to the police station in the Embakasi Inland Container Depot (ICD) via the Eastern Bypass.
He was detained there overnight and the following morning, Miguna was driven to a magistrate's court in Kajiado.
The magistrate could not dismiss the release order which had been obtained from the High Court and Miguna was taken back to the ICD Police Station.
Police officers then searched his clothes and confiscated both his passports before driving Miguna to JKIA where he stayed in the car at the runway until midnight.
The outspoken lawyer disclosed that prior to boarding a plane to Amsterdam, he was not processed by immigration officials.
"I got to the plane from the runway, that means I can return to Kenya through the runway, not immigration," joked Miguna.
He was escorted by police to Amsterdam where he was handed over to Dutch officers for questioning.
After the grilling, the foreign officers sympathised with what Miguna had gone through and let him go explaining that "Good luck, the ones who brought you here are the criminals".
He was then left stranded at a foreign country without any money but luckily, a former client spotted Miguna and volunteered to pay for his flight to Canada.
She also helped organise a media interview which was conducted at the airport. That is how Kenyans in Canada got wind of Miguna's deportation and then arranged to welcome him on arrival.