The High Court in Nairobi has restrained Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki from deploying Kenya's police units as part of the multi-national security mission to Haiti. Milimani High Court Judge Chacha Mwita also restrained the National Assembly from considering the matter. Both orders run until October 24, 2023. Capital FM reports that Justice Mwita certified an application by the Thirdway Alliance opposition political party as urgent, saying the petition raised substantial issues of na
The High Court in Nairobi has restrained Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki from deploying Kenya's police units as part of the multi-national security mission to Haiti. Milimani High Court Judge Chacha Mwita also restrained the National Assembly from considering the matter. Both orders run until October 24, 2023.
The petition to the court argued that the decision by Kenya to send its forces to the Caribbean nation was unconstitutional. On October 3, Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing'oei said the government would seek parliamentary approval for deployment of its police officers to Haiti after the United Nations Security Council approved a Kenyan-led multi-national security mission to quell gang violence in the country.
The High Court has restrained Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki from deploying Kenya's police units as part of the multinational security mission in Haiti. Amnesty International has written to the United Nations urging it to examine the human rights track record of Kenyan security forces in full before endorsing their deployment, representing a diversity of positions on every topic.
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