Kenyan lawmakers said Wednesday that parliamentary approval is required before the deployment of police to the Kenyaled peacekeeping mission in Haiti to combat gang violence that was approved by the U.N. Security Council this week.Opposition lawmaker Anthony Oluoch told a...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan lawmakers said Wednesday that parliamentary approval is required before the deployment of police to the Kenya-led peacekeeping mission in Haiti to combat gang violence that was approved by the U.N. Security Council this week.
Another lawmaker, Junet Mohamed, said the matter should be tabled in Parliament for approval “before any police officer leaves the country” for what he called a “dangerous mission,” citing Kenyan police officers' inexperience in combating local crime. The Kenyan Constitution states that parliamentary approval must be sought before the deployment of a national force and previous peacekeeping missions by the military have been subject to this approval. But it's unclear if this deployment of police officers can be defined as a national force.
Koech said the country’s internal security needs shouldn't stop it from contributing to global peacekeeping missions and it was “morally right” to help restore peace in Haiti.
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