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The Kenyan High Court extended the validity of orders blocking the deployment of police officers to Haiti, on the same day that Parliament approved a government request to send 1,000 policemen to the Caribbean nation to help deal with gang violence
The Kenyan High Court extended the validity of orders blocking the deployment of police officers to Haiti, on the same day that Parliament approved a government request to send 1,000 policemen to the Caribbean nation to help deal with gang violence.
High Court Judge Chacha Mwita said he would make a ruling on January 26 next year. It effectively delays the sending of security officers to Haiti. Kenyan police are expected to lead a multinational force that’s backed by the U.N Security Council. Either of the parties can appeal the decision due in January at the High Court and beyond to the Supreme Court, meaning this could be a protracted battle to send troops to Haiti.
The court decision came hours after Kenya’s parliament passed a motion allowing the deployment of the security officers the government was immediately criticized for disobeying the court orders first issued in October that barred the deployment. Former presidential candidate Ekuru Aukot who filed the case in court described the tabling of the motion as belligerent. Aukot said the move was unconstitutional, calling it a huge mistake and a suicide mission.
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Earlier, the Kenyan parliament approved a government motion tabled by the parliament’s Committee on Administration and Internal Security approving the government’s request to send security officers as violence escalated in Haiti. Interior minister Kithure Kindiki last week told parliament that Kenya would only deploy the officers to Haiti if funding and equipment were paid for by U.N. member states as reported by www.trendsnafrica.com. Burundi, Chad, Senegal, Jamaica, and Belize have all pledged troops for the multinational mission
