Haiti and Kenya Draft MoU Ahead of Deployment

The Authorities of Haiti on Wednesday, February 14, disclosed some particulars a couple of high-level assembly between officers from the Caribbean nation and Kenya which was held in the US for 3 days. 

Officers from Haiti remarked that the 2 international locations had agreed on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on when to deploy officers to the troubled nation. 

Moreover, it was reported that the 2 international locations set a deadline on when cops needs to be deployed to Haiti. 

The assembly was convened by senior United States authorities officers regardless of Kenyan courts banning the proposed deployment of 1,000 cops to Haiti.

Whereas Haiti officers leaked particulars of the assembly, they fell simply wanting making public the deadline set for the police deployment. 

There was a conspicuous silence from Kenyan officers on how President William Ruto’s government was going to circumvent the court ruling. 

Haiti officers although remarked that earlier than the deployment, there can be measures put in place to make sure that the method was lawful. 

“A closing determination on the textual content ought to come early subsequent week in addition to its signature by each events,” Haiti’s authorities said as quoted by the Washington Submit. 

The assembly was held the identical day Prime Cupboard Secretary Musalia Mudavadi defended Kenyan police over accusations of human rights violations. 

Musalia was responding to five US congress members who opposed the deployment of Kenyan cops to Haiti. 

Talking through the African Union’s forty fourth Odd Session at Addis Ababa, Musalia said that the Impartial Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA), ensured that Kenyan cops carried out their duties with utmost requirements and professionalism. 

“This physique investigates such impunity if any and holds particular person cops accountable, together with by way of prosecution,” he informed delegates on the convention.

Moreover, the deployment is being achieved at a time when insurgent leaders are calling for a revolution to oust Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry.