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US ex-diplomat claims Kenya is after money in Haiti mission
An American diplomat has made controversial claims about Kenya’s bid to head the UN-backed peace mission in Haiti.
In an interview with CNN, Daniel Lewis Foote, who was the US special envoy to Haiti from July to September, said the Kenyan government was after the money the UN was expected to inject into the mission.
Foote claimed that the operation in the Caribbean nation was no walk in the park and that the well-organised gangs that overthrew the government would fight the Kenyan police to the death.
“You see the reticence on the part of the Kenyan public to send these guys and that makes me nervous. I believe that this is more of a cash grab by President Ruto, whose country gonna receive a lot of money in doing this,” Mr Foote said.
President Joe Biden’s administration had promised to inject Sh13 billion ($100 million) to support the multinational force.
Kenya had promised to send 1,000 troops to the Caribbean nation in a deal struck between the Kenyan president and former Haitian prime minister Ariel Henry, who recently resigned to pave the way for the Transitional Council.
However, Mr Ariel resigned barely a week after signing an agreement in Nairobi, which temporarily halted the deployment.
After signing the deal, Mr Ariel was forced to land in Puerto Rico’s capital San Juan as fighting intensified.
While Haiti mission has received support from Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Chad, and Kenya, Mr Foote believes that there is need to increase the number of troops that should be deployed if the mission has to be successful.
“A thousand isn’t going to cut it and while they have commitments for double or triple that, that’s still not going to cut it. Every time there has been a military intervention in Haiti in the past 20 years, it’s had a minimum of 20,000 troops or police going in there,” Foote stated.
The President has gone on record saying that Kenyan troops are answering a call to the Haitian people who desperately need help.
“From Kenya, we are ready for this deployment, and I request all the other partners across the globe to step up so that we can provide a response in good time,” Ruto said when he signed the deal with Mr Ariel.
The latest development from the Caribbean state is that one of the gang leaders known as Ernst Julme, known as Ti Greg, was killed by the police in Thursday’s operation in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The death of Julme, a member of gang leader Jimmy Barbeque’s “Viv Ansanm” alliance, follows the death of another notorious gang leader who was killed by a local vigilante group called the Bwa Kale movement.
The situation in Haiti deteriorated in July 2021 following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise.
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