The Government has announced that deployment of at least 1,000 police officers to Haiti will now be delayed following the resignation of country’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry. The PM had signed the mission’s pact in Nairobi two weeks ago at State House.
A statement from Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Abraham Korir Sing’oei says PM Henry’s resignation has altered the ground situation in Haiti, leaving no Government in the country to work with.
“Without a political administration in Haiti, there is no anchor on which a police deployment can rest, therefore the Kenya Government will wait for the installation of a new constitutional authority in Haiti,” reads part of the statement.
The Haitian PM resigned late Monday after being pressurized to exit office by the Summit of Caribbean Countries in order to create an enabling environment for an interim Government.
