TOP PRIORITY
27 July 2012
Mr. Mathew Iteere
The Commissioner of Police
Kenya Police Headquarters
Vigillance House, Harambee Avenue
P.O. Box 30083
Nairobi, Kenya
By email transmission to:
commissioner@kenyapolice.go.ke
customercare@kenyapolice.go.ke
Dear Sir,
RE: REQUEST FOR 24-HOUR STATE SECURITY
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This is my formal request for round-the-clock state security in view of the recent chilling threats to me and my family including the macabre burning and burial of my effigy and coffin in a mock funeral in Nyando lead by an ODM Member of Parliament Fred Otieno Outa and the apparent endorsement of those serious and criminal threats by the top leadership of the ODM and the failure of the relevant Kenyan authorities in apprehending and prosecuting the culprits as would be required in a country governed by the rule of law.
Since launching my book, Peeling Back the Mask: A Quest for Justice in Kenya, on July 14, 2012, I have received several death threats and threats of serious bodily harm by short text messages and email transmissions from people I do not know. One chilling threat stated that upon my return to Kenya next month, I will be “assassinated and my kidneys eaten.”
My family and I take these threats very seriously. We believe that the recent media attacks on me; the character assassination; the almost daily and desperate pseudo psycho-analysis; and the deliberate concoction and publication of so-called “Miguna Files” in sections of the Kenyan media, deliberate and are intended to divert attention from the serious governance issues (particularly grand corruption and nepotism in and by the Office of the Prime Minister) raised in my book, but which some powerful figures, including, but not limited to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya, would rather keep hidden from public scrutiny.
Despite all the threats, the intimidations, the character assassinations and the daily gratuitous attacks in the media and the Internet, I shall return to Kenya on Thursday, August 16, 2012. My flight is scheduled to land at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at 20:15 hours. I intend to continue with my chosen work of writing about and agitating for the respect for the rule of law, the upholding of the constitution (in letter and spirit), the respect for fundamental human rights, the expansion of the democratic space, the elimination of corruption, tribalism and nepotism (of all forms and shades) and the entrenchment and practice of good governance in Kenya. In other words, I am fortified and fully committed in the quest for justice in Kenya.
Consequently, I hope and trust that your good offices will grant and deploy, for my protection and that of my family, 24-hour state security.
I would be very grateful if you can assign adequate security for me upon my arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on the date and time specified.
I am forwarding this request electronically, through the Kenya Police email service, because I am currently on holiday and book tour/promotion in Canada.
I look forward to your prompt and positive response.
Yours very truly,
MIGUNA MIGUNA
Cc: The national and international media
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