Kenyans: What is The Rationale Behind Kenya’s Haiti Mission Yet Our Own Are Dying?
A number of leaders have questioned the rationale behind Kenya’s Haiti mission in the face of the sorry state of affairs on home soil.
Ekuru Aukot has questioned the decision of president Ruto sending troops to Haiti yet on home soil Kenyans are killed due to insecurity and terrorism.
He highlighted several places in the country where Kenyans for year have not know what peace is with Sondu on Spot following fresh crushes 7 people gave list their lives and over 200 families left homeless.
According thirdway Alliance party leader Ekuru Aukot President William Ruto is putting the interest of a foreign state before the country regarding the Haiti mission.
The former candidate for president claimed in a statement on Thursday that although Kenya is experiencing security incidents, the government is preparing a security force for deployment to gang-ravaged Haiti.
“Our Sondu brothers and sisters are being murdered. Yet, for whatever reason, our President wants to send 1,000 police officers to Haiti, according to a statement from Aukot.
Kenya has promised to provide troops to Haiti as soon as possible after January 1 as part of the Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission.
The UN Security Council gave its approval for the deployment Monday night.
The Kenyan police will have the responsibility of protecting government facilities and infrastructure, educating the Haitian police, and battling the hundreds of deadly criminal gangs that control vast swaths of the Caribbean nation.
But at home, Kenyans are fighting for the administrative control of the town of Sondu near the Kisumu-Kericho border, while people of Lamu and the remote counties of Wajir and Mandera live in constant terror of an al Shabaab onslaught.
Even while security personnel from both sides of the border maintain vigil, at least seven individuals have perished in the area in the past 24 hours as a result of increased fighting.
In light of the appalling situation on home soil, a number of officials have questioned the justification for Kenya’s mission to Haiti.
In a statement released on Thursday, the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition criticized the government for putting a foreign policy ahead of the needs of its citizens.
The side led by Raila Odinga expressed worry about the recent wave of attacks that have started to become routine in Mandera and areas of northern Kenya as well as the precarious security situation in the North Rift Counties of Baringo, Elgeyo Marakwet, and Laikipia.
In a statement read by former Defense CS Eugene Wamalwa, Azimio said that “in these places, armed groups, bandits, and cattle rustlers continue to conduct raids on neighboring communities, destroy property, and cause massive displacement of people.”
“These attacks must stop because they are intolerable. They depict a country that is struggling to hold off gangs and terrorists.
Raila urged the government to intervene, claiming it was dozing off as the nation burned.
