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A senior Kenyan official said the bases are still under construction and crucial resources including vehicles are needed before the deployment of the first 200 police officers from Kenya can take over the charge. The deployment was due to start this week, but President William Ruto said it would be delayed for three weeks
Kenyan police tasked to keep Haiti under vigilance are temporarily halting their operations and are returning to their homeland. They said it’s not the right time to go yet due to reasons including non-completion of bases where they have to stay.
A senior Kenyan official said the bases are still under construction and crucial resources including vehicles are needed before the deployment of the first 200 police officers from Kenya can take over the charge. The deployment was due to start this week, but President William Ruto said it would be delayed for three weeks.
The base where the Kenyan police will operate is about 70% done and there is a need for secure stores for the armoury. The officials arrived in Haiti last Tuesday and met the Haitian police on Thursday and the transitional presidential council on Friday. U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday expressed deep appreciation to Ruto, who was on a state visit, for the deployment to help quell gang violence in Haiti.
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The United States has agreed to contribute US$300 million to a multinational force that will include 1,000 Kenyan police officers and others drawn from Jamaica, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, and other countries. A U.N.-approved stabilization mission to Haiti that started in June 2004 was marred by a sexual abuse scandal and the introduction of cholera, which killed nearly 10,000 people. The mission ended in October 2017.
