The High Court will deliver judgment on the petition challenging the deployment of a 1,000-strong police force to lead a multinational security support mission in Haiti.
The ruling is scheduled to be rendered at Nairobi’s Milimani Law Courts by High Court Judge Chacha Mwita.
Haiti has been grappling with a surge in violence since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 at his private residence in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
This has triggered calls for a security intervention to complement the efforts of the understaffed and under-resourced Haiti national police force.
Kenya had okayed the deployment of the police units to lead the peace efforts in the violence-hit Caribbean nation.
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Still, the move was blocked after Thirdway Alliance Party leader Ekuru Aukot filed a case challenging it on October 9.
Aukot claimed in his petition that the action was unconstitutional.
On October 24, the court further prolonged the injunctions prohibiting Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki from assigning Kenyan police to the UN-backed operation in a new manner.
On November 16, 2023, the National Assembly approved the planned deployment to Haiti.
The government is counting on the Senate's approval, as it is widely anticipated that senators will support a report from the Joint Security and National Administration Committee of Parliament.
The joint team accepted the deployment, but Peter Kaluma, the MP for Homa Bay Town, disapproved, calling it "unconstitutional and unlawful."
Kaluma argued that the National Police Service (NPS) can only perform its function within Kenyan territory and that it is only a force for deployment within the country.
Further, he opposed the deployment, arguing that NPS is an independent institution that is not capable of deployment under instruction of the National Security Council (NSAC).
At least ten other countries have signaled readiness to deploy personnel to the Kenya-led Mission which received approval from the UN Security Council in October 2023.
