‘SORRY, HAITI, FOR U.S.-PUSHED KENYAN COP MISSION’

In this clip, Kiritu Chege from Kenya’s Communist Party shares the sentiments of many Kenyans regarding Nairobi’s controversial police deployment Haiti. Firstly, he apologises to the island nation and secondly, he says Washington twisted Kenya’s arm. It did this because it knows it can no longer credibly go in itself to restore order in Haiti. The US needed a ‘Black face.’ And Kenyan president William Ruto was happy to provide one, even going so far as to ignore his own High Court’s ruling that the deployment of Kenyan police to Haiti to tackle gang violence there would be unconstitutional. Washington pledged $300 million for the mission but deployed Kenyan officers have reportedly yet to receive their salaries.

Video credit: @communistske