- The Cabinet has already approved the deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti.
- Kenya has offered to lead a Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) to Haiti.
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Interior CS Kithure Kindiki is set to meet the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Security over the planned deployment of the National Police Service officers to Haiti.
Kindiki had earlier noted that Kenya police will be deployed to Haiti only if Parliament approves it.
He said the request by the United Nations had to first be approved by both the National Assembly and Senate as per the requirement of the Constitution.
"The request by the United Nations Security Council for the deployment of Police officers to Haiti will be subject to Parliamentary approval. Article 240 of the Constitution requires Parliament to approve the deployment of security forces to any peacekeeping mission in foreign nations," he said at a church service in Kiambaa in October.
Last month, the Cabinet approved the deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti, jumping one more legal hurdle in the circuitous approvals needed to have the move get legal backing.
A dispatch from the State House in Nairobi said the country’s council of ministers had approved the deployment which will now head to parliament for the needed ratification.
Kenya has offered to lead a Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) to Haiti.
The decision by the government to send the troops has been seen as controversial and a lawyer had already gone to court seeking to stop the deployment altogether.
The High Court had earlier suspended plans for deployment, temporarily, after the lawyer argued there had been no Cabinet decision on it and that Parliament was being bypassed.
A dozen senior police officers toured Toussaint Louverture International Airport and neighbouring sites in Port-au-Prince Haiti, in August for an assessment study.
The team that was led by Deputy Inspector General of Administration Police Noor Gabow also held meetings in New York, US, and met with officials from Haitian government to understand the demands of the local population.
The US is partly funding the MSS to the tune of $200 million if Congress approves.