Broke mission? Why Kenya is yet to send 600 police officers to Haiti
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Members of the first contingent of Kenyan police stand in formation after arriving in the Caribbean country as part of a peacekeeping mission, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti June 26, 2024.
In early November, Reuters reported that at 20 MSS officers from Kenya had served their superiors with resignation letters.
An officer that spoke to Nation.Africa in confidence on Tuesday said that they were willing to join their counterparts in Haiti.
The United States, the United Nations and other international partners are yet to release funds to Kenya for the deployment of 600 police officers to Haiti, furthering concerns financial constraints that recently triggered claims of some personnel resigning.
The group, part of the UN-backed Multinational Security Support (MSS) programme, was to travel to Port au Prince after completing a course specific to handling of the gang-instigated conflict in Haiti, but is now stuck waiting at the Embakasi training centre.
