Kenya and Haiti have finally agreed on a deal that will see deployment of 1000 Kenyan police officers to Haiti for a peace keeping mission.
This comes days after reports emerged that Haiti gangs have seized an Haiti International airport following the travel of Haiti prime minister to Kenya to sign the deal.
The official deal has been signed on Friday, March 1, by Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kithure Kindiki and the Haiti Security Minister at State House in the presence of President William Ruto and Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
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However, this deal comes at a time when there is an active court order that describes the deployment of police officers to the Caribbean country as unconstitutional, thus barring the process.
The Haiti Prime Minister arrived in the country on Thursday, after an invitation from President William Ruto, which he stated was to finalise the agreement between the two states to send Kenyan troops to the troubled country.
Immediately the Prime Minister left Haiti, a gang staged an attack, sieging Haiti’s main airport, government agencies, and police stations, which paralysed operations in the country on Thursday, February 29.
In a video circulating on social media, Jimmy Cherizier, leader of the gang federation G9 Family and Allies, revealed that a plan was underway to seize control of the government operations.
Warning Prime Minister Henry not to return from Kenya, the gang leader further directed his crew to reign on police posts, leading to the death of four people.
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However, President William Ruto has vowed to help Haiti solve the gang problem in the Caribbean nation by deployment of police to Haiti as the two countries share the same origin and will be for the good of the people of Haiti to achieve peace.