Days after Kenya’s president William Ruto and Haiti’s prime minister Ariel Henri engaged in an agreement involving Kenya in the multinational security support to Haiti, concerns have been raised by various political personnel's.
Speaking in a national television on Monday, the Thirdway Alliance Party leader, Ekuru Aukot has argued that the Haitian prime minister Ariel Henri lacks legitimacy and based on the amount of damage that the gangs have made, it only proofs how lacking Haiti is in its ruling system.
“The gangs have told Ariel Henry to stay in Kenya because he is not legitimate. If we go this route, what then stops us from signing an agreement with Al shabaab or Mungiki because they control a certain region. Haiti does not have a parliament even a legitimate government,” Aukot stated
With the lack of a clear governing system in Haiti, it leaves a question of how the agreement between Kenya and Haiti will be approved formally in Haiti.
The Kenyan high court had objected the earlier deployment attempts saying that deploying the nation’s police officers to Haiti was unconstitutional.
Kenya leads the Haiti mission, with 1,000 Kenyan police officers under the United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR) 2699. The reciprocal agreement was signed by Interior Cabinet secretary Kithure Kindiki for Kenya and the Haitian secretary general of the council of ministers Alix Richard.
Kenya-Haiti agreement put on the scale