Kenya has deployed the first team of an elite all-female SWAT team to Haiti to join an ongoing Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission.
The team of officers who were 144 in number arrived in the Caribbean based country on Thursday, February 6, 2025 where they were welcomed by the MSS Commander General Godfrey Otunge.
The all-female SWAT team is highly skilled and tactical and will be of great help in the ongoing mission whose main aim is to restore peace in Haiti.
“I saw off an additional 144 police officers comprising 120 men and 24 women to bolster the 600 officers who had been deployed earlier,” said Mr Kipchumba Murkomen who is the Interior CS.
He also said that Kenya sent its officers to the mission and he believes that it was a calling from God to ensure that Haiti remains peaceful.
Apart from Mr Otunge, others who welcomed the team include; President of the Transition Presidential Council (TPC), Leslie Voltaire, alongside Prime Minister Didier Fils-Aimé and Haiti National Police Director General Normil Rameau.
This comes at a time when US President Donald Trump administration announced that it had taken a step to withdraw financial contributions to the mission.
However, in a statement on Friday, President William Ruto said that he held a conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio who assured him that Kenya will still receive support towards the mission.
Other countries that have their officers in Haiti include; Kenya, Jamaica, Guatemala, the Bahamas and Belize. This comes at a time when the United States of America (USA) has cut its donation to the mission.
Haiti has for years been ungovernable due to existing gangs that usually cause havoc in the Caribbean based nation.
