P-au-P, July 16, 2024 [AlterPresse] — The acting director general of the Haitian National Police (PNH), Rameau Normil, welcomed on July 16, 2024 the arrival in Port-au-Prince of a second cohort of approximately 200 Kenyan police officers, as part of the deployment of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MMAS) in Haiti, observes the online agency AlterPresse.
“We received, this morning (July 16, 2024), the new Kenyan police officers, part of the Multinational Mission for Security Support (MMAS) in Haiti. These police officers came to help us fight against armed gangs, which are terrorizing the population. On behalf of the government and the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT), I welcome them,” said Normil.
Having left Kenya on the evening of Monday, July 15, 2024, these police officers were welcomed on the tarmac of Port-au-Prince international airport by the Director General of the PNH and the Commander-in-Chief of Kenyan troops in Haiti, Police Inspector Godfrey Otunga.
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The Kenyan government has offered to send a total of 1,000 police officers to Haiti for the 2,500-member MMAS, initially scheduled to last one year (until October 2024), to which police officers from Bangladesh, Benin, Chad, the Bahamas and Barbados are also expected to contribute.
A first contingent of Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, June 25, 2024...
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The Kenyan contingent is made up of police officers from several elite units, including the anti-terrorist squadron Recce Squad, which intervened during attacks carried out by the radical Somali Islamists Shebab on Kenyan soil (against Garissa University in 2015 and the Westgate and Dusit shopping malls in 2013 and 2019).
The Republic of Haiti is in the grip of a cycle of terror and other violence by armed gangs, who control 80% of the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince, as well as several major axes of the territory. [ppsf emb rc apr16/07/2024 15:05]
Photo: Account X of journalist Jacqueline Charles
