High Court is set to deliver the ruling on the deployment of 1,000 kenya police officers to Haiti on a security mission on January 26, 2024.
under a peacekeeping mission approved by the United Nations (UN) Security Council.was told by a petitioner, Dr. Ekuru Aukot, through his lawyer, Charles Bitenga, that the deployment of the officers will be unconstitutional and unlawful.
The petitioner also said that the government has already decided to deploy the officers to a foreign country with no bilateral treaty with Kenya.
The National Security Council and the Ministry of Interior communicated to deploy the officers.
The petitioner said there was no request made by Haiti, which has had no Parliament since 2020, to deploy members of the National police service.
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Further, the court heard that the Kenya government cannot enforce the resolution by the National Security Council over the deployment.
Under the Police Act, the members of the National Police Service are required to provide security within its territory.
The Law Society of Kenya supported the petitioner's application through Evans Ogada to the effect that the intended deployment will offend several articles of the 2010 constitution.
However, the Attorney General and the Cabinet Secretary for Interior supported the move to deploy the officers.
Through Emmanuel Binta, the AG said a decision has not yet been made; it is only a communication from the National Security Council to the Speaker of the National Assembly seeking Approval.
Meanwhile, parliament has approved the deployment of 1000 police officers to Haiti under a peacekeeping mission approved by the United Nations (UN) Security Council.
The National Assembly Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Security and the Senate Standing Committee on National Security, Defence & Foreign Relations jointly approved the mission to see Kenyan troops dispatched to Haiti in 2024.
They will be dispatched to restore combat gangs that have largely overrun Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
