Senator Edwin Sifuna of Nairobi has asserted that President William Ruto's financial interests in the mission are why he has remained steadfast in supporting the controversial deployment of police officers to war-torn Haiti.
Despite a High Court decision declaring the mission unconstitutional, Ruto has insisted that it will proceed.
Sifuna claims that Ruto's disobedience is motivated by his desire to benefit personally from the mission and that the unquestionable truth will be revealed when it is ready.
"The question I ask myself [is] what is the thing that Ruto is going to gain from this deployment in Haiti because it doesn't make sense to anyone else; to ordinary Kenyans, to the courts, why is he insisting," said Sifuna.
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"I cannot think of any other reason other than pecuniary interest and it will emerge in the fullness of time we will see that this deployment was not done in the interest of the people of Kenya or in the interest of the people of Haiti. It is private pecuniary interests."
On Thursday, the lawmaker was a Citizen TV's Daybreak Show guest.
In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, President Ruto stated that the security mission to the Caribbean country, which the U.N. has approved, is certain to go according to plan.
Ruto also mentioned that Haiti had requested assistance months prior, and he anticipated a request to meet the court's requirements would be made soon.
"So that mission can go ahead as soon as next week if all the paperwork is done between Kenya and Haiti on the bilateral route that has been suggested by the court," Ruto said following an Italian-Africa summit in Rome.
Kenya is about to start a mission to combat the widespread gang violence in the Caribbean country, working with forces from the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, and Jamaica.
To start the deployment, the US has promised to donate Ksh. 32.5 billion ($200 million).
Kenya pledged in July 2023 to send out 1,000 police officers, citing its support for a fellow country as justification.
The goal is being pursued. Emphasizing that the mission was a police, not a military operation, Ruto stated, "The mission is a bigger calling to humanity."
The UN announced last week that it had recorded 4,789 deaths in Haiti from gang-related violence in 2017 and an additional 3,000 kidnappings.
In the meantime, Kenya's government has promised to appeal the court's ruling, claiming that Kenya is essential to bringing peace to the Caribbean country.
The opposition party, Azimio la Umoja One Kenya, has urged the United States to honor the High Court's decision, emphasizing that both domestic and foreign organizations with doubts about the decision ought to honor the judiciary's independence.
