As President Ruto, Kenya’s fifth president is visiting Washington in a state visit of its kind accorded to a sitting African president in 16 years, Haitians Living in Washington came out in their large numbers to express their displeasure with the decision Kenya took to deploy its police in a peace-mission in Haiti.
Kenya had volunteered last year July to send its troops to the Gang-affected Caribbean country situated 3,039 kilometers from the US, a decision that faced handled due legal procedures that the process had to go through in accordance with Kenyan constitution.
In February, Judge Chacha Mwita described the envisaged deployment as unconstitutional, null and void: ‘The effort, and in particular the attempt to deploy police officers to Haiti, must fall for lack of constitutional and legal foundation.’
U.S. officials had previously indicated that the officers would be in Port-au-Prince by Thursday to coincide with Kenyan President William Ruto’s state visit to the White House according to Routers. President Ruto’s visit to Washington is also seen as Kenya shifting its diplomatic relations from china Which as been its development partner in the last two decades delivering big projects such the SGR and the Express way.
