Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has pleaded with President William Ruto to withdraw Kenya from the ongoing Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission in Haiti following the deaths of two police officers.
According to Kalonzo, the Haiti mission is becoming too costly for Kenya and it is imperative to retrieve them and bring them back home.
"In the absence of a UN resolution complete with funding capability and whatever, we want our boys back because this is becoming too much," Kalonzo demanded.
The Wiper leader noted that Kenya has previously been involved in international peacekeeping missions, but the Haiti operation has been the most costly to the country.
He compared the Haiti Mission to the previous peacekeeping mission where Kenya was one of the African Union member states that contributed troops to the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) from 1995 to 2005.
UNAMSIL's mission was to stabilize Sierra Leone and implement the Lome Peace Agreement, and it ended successfully in 2005.
"We have had peacekeeping missions abroad to Sierra Leon, we had one with General Mulinge, and he brought all our boys back, even when some of them were apprehended, he refused to return until all of them were released. We have not had cases of us losing men who have gone on a peacekeeping mission," Kalonzo noted.
Kalonzo's call comes at a time when Kenya has suffered a loss, as two of its police officers have lost their lives during the mission.
The MSS is an international police and military force approved by the United Nations Security Council on 2 October 2023 to assist the government of Haiti in restoring law and order amid worsening civil strife and gang violence since 2018.
Since June 2024, the Kenyan government has deployed at least 800 police officers to Haiti to help combat gangs and restore peace.
Last month, a 26-year-old police constable was fatally hurt during an operation in Ségur-Savien. Samuel Tompoi Kaetuai's body was flown back, and he was laid to rest in March.
Barely a week after his burial, Kenya lost a second officer, Benedict Kabiru, who was shot dead on Monday, March 24, 2025, in Savien while carrying out an anti-gang operation.
The Kenyan police in Haiti still have six months remaining in the mission after it was extended by the UN Security Council until October 2, 2025.
