NAIROBI, Kenya
Kenya’s parliament has approved the deployment of 1000 police officers to Haiti, under a peacekeeping mission approved the the United Nations (UN) Security Council.
The National Assembly
Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Security and the Senate
Standing Committee on National Security, Defence & Foreign Relations
jointly approved the mission that will see Kenyan troops dispatched to the
Caribbean nation next year, to restore combat gangs that have largely overrun
Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
While appearing before the
joint committee on November 9, 2023, Police Inspector General Japhet Koome said
the Kenyan troop will be deployed in stages and a selection exercise has been
done to identify the officers who will take part in the mission.
Interior Cabinet Secretary
Kithure Kindiki also appeared before the House committee, where he broke down
the cost of the Haiti mission.
Kindiki told MPs the
deployment of Kenya’s 1000 troops will cost $241,390,961 (Ksh. 36,570,730,591),
which will be will be obtained from UN member states. The total cost of the
mission that will involve troops from other countries will cost $600 (Ksh.91billion).
“Unless all resources are
mobilised and availed, our troops will not leave the country. They will not
leave Kenyan soil until the equipment required on the ground in Haiti is in
place,” Kindiki told the joint committee.
The United Nations Security
Council approved the Multinational Security Support mission that
will be led by Kenya.
Other nations such as The
Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda are also willing to help.
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