Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has criticised the government’s decision to deploy Kenyan police officers to Haiti.
Speaking to international media on Friday, July 25, 2025, he suggested the move was the result of a private arrangement between President William Ruto and the United States’ former President Joe Biden’s administration.
“In a nutshell, we are against that deployment, even though the United Nations Security Council should have deliberated that deployment. Looks like it was a private deal between the Ruto and Biden administrations,” he said.
Kalonzo expressed concern over the welfare of Kenyan officers deployed to the Caribbean nation, noting that several had already lost their lives.
“We have lost several of our young people in Haiti, and we want them back,” he said.
Kalonzo reiterated the opposition’s long-standing position against the deployment, which he said defied a court ruling barring the government from sending police officers to Haiti.
“As the opposition, we made it clear that we want our boys home. First of all, that deployment was against a court ruling that they should not have taken our policemen to Haiti,” he added.
Haiti mission
His remarks come almost a month after the Kenyan police contingent in Haiti, along with top Haitian and United Nations officials, gathered in Port-au-Prince to commemorate one year since the deployment.
The 800 Kenyan police officers deployed under the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS), a U.N.-backed initiative aimed at helping Haiti’s overwhelmed national police counter increasingly powerful armed gangs.
Security forces from Jamaica, Guatemala, and El Salvador join them.
Speaking during the commemoration on June 27, 2025, María Isabel Salvador, Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General in Haiti and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), emphasised the importance of the MSS to Haiti’s fragile security landscape.
“The critical role the MSS resolution plays is in providing operational support to the Haitian National Police by building its capacity through the planning and conduct of joint security operations,” she said. “It works to counter gangs and improve security conditions in Haiti.”
Force Commander of the mission, Godfrey Otunge, began his remarks with a moment of silence for Haitian and Kenyan officers killed in the line of duty. He acknowledged the complexity of the task ahead but remained hopeful.
“We are aware of the importance of the journey to a lasting peace is not always easy. It is complex and challenging,” Otunge said.
By K24 Digital