Kenya’s top police official has denied reports that officers serving in the United Nations-backed multinational peacekeeping mission in Haiti have gone unpaid for three months. The police inspector general, Douglas Kanja, on Thursday said officers in Haiti had been paid “up to the end of October.
A Kenya n police officer, part of a UN-backed multinational force, runs to take cover from an exchange of gunfire between gangs and police at the Kenya n base in the Delmas neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti , Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya ’s top police official has denied reports that officers serving in the United Nations -backed multinational peacekeeping mission in Haiti have gone unpaid for three months.
The police inspector general, Douglas Kanja, on Thursday said officers in Haiti had been paid “up to the end of October.” He was reacting to Kenyan media reports citing deployed officers who complained that their salaries had not been paid for three months. While some Haitians welcome them, others view the force with caution, given that the previous intervention — the U.N.’s 2004-2017 peacekeeping mission — was marred by
Financial reports from Kenya’s Treasury revealed that Kenya spent over 2 billion Kenyan shillings for the mission while waiting to be reimbursed by the U.N.A court in Kenya finds a housemate guilty in the killing of an LGBTQ activist“This money we are spending on behalf of the U.N., we are the ones making the payment so the money comes from our exchequer because these are our officers,” Treasury Minister John Mbadi told domestic media last week.
More than 4,500 people have been reported killed in Haiti so far this year, and another 2,060 injured, according to the U.N.A growing number of people have criticized the Kenyan-led mission, noting that police have not seized control of gang strongholds or arrested any gang leaders.Musambi is an Associated Press reporter based in Nairobi, Kenya. She covers regional security, geopolitics, trade relations and foreign policy across East Africa.
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