A Kenyan court docket on Friday dominated in opposition to the federal government’s plan to deploy police to Haiti to steer a UN-backed multinational mission geared toward restoring order within the gang-plagued Caribbean nation.
The ruling comes as Haiti’s authorities requires the pressing deployment of a multinational power to assist the nation’s overwhelmed police battle rampant violence.
The UN Safety Council gave the go-ahead in early October for the Kenya-led mission, which has confronted criticism at dwelling and a authorized problem filed on the Nairobi Excessive Court docket final yr.
On Friday, choose Enock Chacha Mwita dominated that “any resolution by any state organ or state officer to deploy cops to Haiti… contravenes the structure and the legislation and is due to this fact unconstitutional, unlawful and invalid.”
“An order is hereby issued prohibiting deployment of police forces to Haiti or every other nation,” he mentioned.
There was no quick response from the Kenyan authorities to the ruling.
President William Ruto earlier described the Kenyan enterprise as a “mission for humanity” in a nation ravaged by colonialism.
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