The Government of Haiti on Wednesday, February 14, disclosed some details about a high-level meeting between officials from the Caribbean nation and Kenya which was held in the United States for three days.
Officials from Haiti remarked that the two countries had agreed on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on when to deploy officers to the troubled nation.
Additionally, it was reported that the two countries set a deadline on when police officers should be deployed to Haiti.
The meeting was convened by senior United States government officials despite Kenyan courts banning the proposed deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti.
While Haiti officials leaked details of the meeting, they fell just short of making public the deadline set for the police deployment.
There was a conspicuous silence from Kenyan officials on how President William Ruto’s government was going to circumvent the court ruling.
Haiti officials though remarked that before the deployment, there would be measures put in place to ensure that the process was lawful.
“A final decision on the text should come early next week as well as its signature by both parties,” Haiti’s government stated as quoted by the Washington Post.
The meeting was held the same day Prime Cabinet 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 police officers to Haiti.
Speaking during the African Union’s 44th Ordinary Session at Addis Ababa, Musalia stated that the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA), ensured that Kenyan police officers carried out their duties with utmost standards and professionalism.
“This body investigates such impunity if any and holds individual police officers accountable, including through prosecution,” he told delegates at the conference.
Additionally, the deployment is being done at a time when rebel leaders are calling for a revolution to oust Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
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