President William Ruto says the Government is moving forward with plan to send at least 1,000 police officers to Haiti, in a UN-approved security mission. This is despite last Friday’s High Court ruling which blocked the deployment.
The contingent of police from Kenya is aimed at tackling rampant gang violence in the Caribbean nation, which killed nearly 5,000 people last year, a mission to be initially financed by the United States.
Last Friday, the High Court barred the deployment, saying the National Security Council has no legal mandate to deploy police officers out of Kenya or any other country.
Further, the ruling says Kenya does not have reciprocal agreement with Haiti, therefore, officers from the National Police Service cannot be sent to Haiti.
