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It did not matter whether the petitioner was a Kenyan citizen or not. He was entitled
to due process of the law as an incidence of the rule of law. The Cabinet Secretary
Ministry of Interior and Coordination and the Director of Immigration had no
mandate to declare the petitioner a forbidden immigrant because he was not an
immigrant. Also, they could not suspend his passport under section 33(1) of the Act
since he did not fall in the category of persons whose passports could be suspended
and or taken away. The petitioner had not lost, damaged or mutilated his passport for
him to apply for a new one. His passport was irregularly seized by state agents.
• The petitioner was deported from his country without being subjected to any known
due process and or being given an explanation. The respondents were unable to justify
their actions against the petitioner. It was unthinkable that a state could deport its own
citizen to a second country without regard to the Constitution and the law. Even if the
state had reason to act as it did, it was under a constitutional duty to follow the law
and not act at whims in complete disregard of the Constitution and the law.
The court issued an order quashing the decision of the Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Interior
and Coordination under section 33(1) of the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, 2011
dated February 6,2018 that declared the petitioner a non-citizen of Kenya or that his presence
in Kenya was contrary to national interest. An order quashing the decision of the Cabinet
Secretary Ministry of Interior and Coordination under section 43(1) of the Kenya Citizenship
and Immigration Act, 2011 dated February 6, 2018 that directed the removal of the petitioner
from Kenya was also issued.
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