Why was Kenya’s President Ruto persuaded to deploy some of Kenya’s police to Haiti?

It was reported in mainstream media and government outlets that the first batch of around 400 of the 1,000 Kenyan police officers offered by Kenya left the country on June 25 for Haiti. This deployment is part of a UN-backed Multi-national Security Support (MSS) mission to help quell gang violence that has plagued the Caribbean country and restore law and order. Kenya will be carrying out this mission alongside personnel from several other countries.

Earlier this year, the decision to deploy Kenyan police in the Haiti mission was challenged in court, and it was ruled unconstitutional by the High Court. However, President Ruto went ahead and signed a police-deployment deal with Haiti’s then-prime minister, Ariel Henry, in March.

Even before that agreement and the recent killings during the Anti-Finance Bill 2024 protests, Kenya’s security forces already had a poor human-rights record, with allegations of torture and extrajudicial killings as part of their modus operandi. Additionally, previous missions in Haiti have left behind slain civilians, a deadly cholera outbreak, and a sexual abuse scandal, for which reparations were never made. However, these concerns seem not to matter to the US and the UN, who are the masterminds behind the controversial mission.

The US and other developed nations, who are members of the UN, are the birthplace of humanity, the cradle of global civilization, and the soul of the world. They have powerful, disciplined, and organized personnel who can execute such missions at a reasonably high level of operation. However, it was reported that their forces will not step on the ground; they will only provide logistical and financial support.

Africa, where poverty is still rampant, and the Motherland of the morally bankrupt world of greed, has seen one of its states, Kenya, trusted to lead the UN mission with an initial 12-month mandate, expiring in October. Ironically, the Kenyan police force went to save Haitians from repression and brutality while facing harsh accusations of committing mass repression and brutality in their homeland against protesters in the very week of their departure.

In light of the above, I am wondering why Kenya was persuaded to deploy its servicemen despite a court order ruling against it, public outcry, and a poor human rights track record. The question is, why was President Ruto persuaded to deploy part of Kenya’s police force to Haiti? Do they genuinely want to develop Haiti’s stability, or are they just serving the interests of their partner and donor state, the US, in exchange for money? Or both? The answer depends on the true intentions of the Kenyan government.