President William Ruto receives Haiti’s Prime Minister Garille Conille in Kenya for a four-day visit.
The Prime Minister landed in Kenya on 10th October 2024.
According to the Prime Minister, the visit is expected to discuss the timelines for sending the additional police officers to Haiti with President William Ruto and other officials.
Apart from that Garry Corneille will hold meeting with willing African countries to discuss about Haiti.
The Prime Minister will also meet his complement form the United Arab Emirates during his mission to discuss partnerships in the new technology and technical assistance in security.
This led to a joint press briefing at State House between the Haiti Prime Minister and the President of Kenya.
During the press briefing, President William Ruto announced that an additional of 600 police officer who have been undergoing training would positioned in Haiti in November as part of the Multinational security support mission.
This was in response to what William Ruto had said sometime last year when he pledged that Kenya would support Haiti at The United Nations.
The president said that on 26th Jun, he had deployed 400 police officers to Haiti of which the 600 additional officers will amount to 1000.
In the speech, the Head of State promised Haiti that they would succeed against the gangs and there will be trials to get them better equipment’s.
Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua, Barbuda, Italy, Spain, Mongolia, Senegal, Belize, Suriname, Guatemala and Peru have also promised to send off their police officers to Haiti.
