Korir Sing’oei, principal secretary, in Kenya’s ministry of foreign affairs has said that the planned deployment of police to Haiti is now on pause following the resignation of the Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry. “It is true the planned deployment of police officers has been put on hold,” Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Koriri Sing’oei said Tuesday. “There has been a fundamental change in circumstances in Haiti as a result of the complete breakdown of law and order,” Sing’oei reconfirmed.

The principal secretary for foreign affairs, also said without a political administration in Haiti there would be no bases of the deployment. Mr Sing’oei maintained that Kenya will relax the deployment until new constitutional authority will be installed.

You could recall that Last year, The East African country of Kenya pledged to deploy about 1,000 police officers to Haiti as part of an international intervention force into Haiti to combat the gang violence crisis.

Although there has been a court against the deployment earlier this month but it looks like all the legal challenges  had been cleared.

Moreover, The  President of Kenya William Ruto reconfirmed that he and Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry had witnessed the signing of the reciprocal agreements between the both countries  on the 1st of March clearing the path for the deployment. Kenya had agreed on October last year to lead a U.N.-authorized Intervention police force to Caribbean country of Haiti,

Under the plan, the U.N.-backed multi-national police led by Kenyan officers was to combat the sharp violent escalation in the country since Feb. 29, with gunmen burning police stations, closing the main international airports and raiding the country’s two biggest prisons, releasing more than 4,000 inmates.

Many have lost their lives and more than 15,000 are homeless after fleeing neighborhoods raided by gangs. Food shortage and the main Seaport in the capital of Port-au-Prince  closed, dozens of containers with critical supplies abandoned.

Ariel Henry spoke after Caribbean leaders and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met in Jamaica to discuss a solution to Haiti crisis.

“The government I’m running will remove itself immediately after the installation of the council,” Ariel Henry said in a recorded voice Message.

Meanwhile On Monday, Kenyan Interior Minister Kindiki Kithure said their officers selected to go to Haiti were ready and awaiting deployment after the top court’s requirement’s on bilateral agreements were met.

Critics of Henry, who was sworn in as prime minister nearly two weeks after the July 7, 2021, assassination of the President Jovenel Moise protesting that he was never elected by the people or Parliament, which remains nonvalid as the terms of the last remaining senators expired in January 2023. That has also created leadership vacuum as no single elected official.