Huge number of people gathered in demonstrations around the Kenyan Embassy in the United States moments after President Ruto and Joe Biden had completed their speech to Americans and the world.
According to reports, the group consisting of Haiti nationals protested against President Ruto and his decision to agree on police deployment to the war torn Caribbean country.
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Haiti nationals who live in the United States held messages written on placards with warning to President Ruto and in a bid to demand that President William Ruto stops his plan to deploy one thousand police officers.
According to protestors, the US government is the one sponsoring and instigating gang violence in Haiti. Therefore, they find it ironic for America to similarly sponsor a peace-keeping mission in the war that they are funding.
The protests came moments after President William Ruto and his US counterpart Joe Biden reaffirmed their commitment to send troops to Haiti in what they term as a peace keeping mission against the gangs.
President Ruto however said that he has not been coerced by the US to send troops to Haiti but has done so because it’s the right thing to do on behalf of kenyans.
“Kenya’s participation in Haiti is not about what happened in the past. The USA cannot commit Kenya to Haiti. It is we, the people of Kenya who made this decision. I am the President of Kenya and it is me who made the decision. It is the role of the people of Kenya to commit their troops using their structure.”
Commenting on why the US could not send their troops, Biden said that involving their troops directly could lead to misinterpretation of the mission and therefore had to use Kenya for the peace keeping mission.
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“We concluded that if the US deploys its forces to the northern hemisphere, it raises all kinds of questions that can be easily misrepresented by what is happening in Haiti.”