Former U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Dan Foote has described Haiti as a death trap for 1000 kenyan police forces that the kenyan government is planning to send describing them as few.
According to Foote, the situation in the Caribbean nation is dire and will be a death trap for the officers and that kenyan President William Ruto is doing it for money with no idea of the repercussions.
“The Haitians are well armed and if the international community imposes this Caricom government contract, they are going to fight the Kenyans to the death.”
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Speaking in an interview with CNN, Foote pointed out that every time there has been a military intervention in Haiti, at least 20,000 troops have been deployed to Port-au-Prince, adding that none of these missions achieved success.
“A thousand isn’t going to cut it and while they have commitments for double or triple that, that’s still not going to cut it. Every time there has been a military intervention in Haiti in the past 20 years, it’s had a minimum of 20,000 troops or police going in there.”
The former envoy additionally suggested that Kenya’s motivation to lead the security mission is largely spurred by financial incentives from the UN Security Council and not genuine peacekeeping efforts.
“You see the reticence on the part of the Kenyan public to send these guys and that makes me nervous. I believe that this is more of a cash grab by President Ruto whose country will receive a lot of money for doing this.”
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This comes after the US government initially pledged $100 million (Ksh.13 billion) to support the Kenyan-led multinational force to restore security to Haiti, further urging other nations to make similar contributions.