Belgut Member of Parliament (MP) Nelson Koech has termed the court's decision to suspend Kenya's peacekeeping mission in Haiti unfair and called on the AG to appeal the ruling.
Justice Chacha Mwita ruled on Friday that the National Security Council does not have the authority to deploy police officers to another country.
"Any decision by any state organ or state officer to deploy police officers to Haiti... contravenes the constitution and the law and is therefore unconstitutional, illegal and invalid," Justice Chacha declared.
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"We need our officers to go out. Kenya is going to miss a golden opportunity to showcase its other side of being a peace anchor in the region. I think the Attorney General should very quickly appeal this case," he said in an interview with Citizen TV on Monday.
The member also stated that Kenya's deployment of officers to peacekeeping missions is not unprecedented since the country has troops in other war-torn countries of the East African bloc.
"It is not the first mission that this country has done. As we are talking now, we have more than 1000 police officers out there in Somalia, some in Southern Sudan, so to say that you cannot have police go for this mission, in my own view, was totally not being fair to this administration."
Haiti's government, however, remains optimistic that the mission will proceed as planned despite the court ruling, as it hopes for a Swift And Positive Outcome.
It said it would "like to thank the many countries that have come forward to offer various types of aid to restore order and security as soon as possible."
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