Ruto’s Pledge To Send 1000 Police Officers To Haiti Was Informed By An Act Of Parliament
The Mt Kenya Times 
President William Ruto
By: Joseph Mutua Ndonga
Worth Noting:
- One of the firm agreed to support Kenya become the pioneer in rolling out of the clean energy powered electric buses in Africa. This is in recognization of your pivotal role in rallying Africa behind the agenda of tackling the deadly and negative effects of climate change globally.
- The other day you convened the inaugural Africa Climate Summit. The meeting was a big success.
- After 3-day deliberations, the African heads of state and government led the delegates in passing a Nairobi declaration, the key highlights being to speak in one voice on climate matter.
- The CEO of e-mobility further noted. We are going to set up an assembling plant in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi.
President William Ruto’s pledge that Kenya will send 1,000 police officers to join UN peace keeping mission in Haiti have continued to elicit mixed reactions.
Those opposed argues that the President did not have the legal power to make that decision.
I disagree. Allow me to explain why. The stipulations of sections 107,108 and 109 of the National Police Service (NPS) allow him to do so.
I heard the Cabinet Secretary for Interior Kithure Kindiki elaborating this matter further.
He stated that the deployment cannot be done without an approval of Parliament. Granted, I’m persuaded to believe President Ruto equally shares his sentiments.
Well, the Constitution of Kenya 2010 provides for two ways of enacting the laws: Parliamentary process and popular initiative.
The constitution is the supreme law of the land.
It therefore follows that the Acts that contradict it are considered to be null and void. Members of parliament (MPs) are responsible for the making the Acts and other sections of law.
In light of this, it is wrong to point an accusing at President Ruto.
His pledge that Kenya will send 1,000 had been informed by three sections of NPS.
But as of now, the grounds cited by those opposed are weak.
Kenyans can only listen to them if they manage to convince the court that the three sections were unconstitutional and should be removed from NPS Act.
Well, President William Ruto revisited this pledge while on a working visit in the United States of America.
Kenya once again reaped big from the trip.
Dr Ruto met and held talks with the Presidents and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of the world’s leading tech and e-mobility firms.
He also met the heads of the independent organizations involved in empowering the lives of the down trodden.
Thereafter, he signed and witnessed the signing of lucrative agreements and deals by members of his delegation and their hosts.
One of the firm agreed to support Kenya become the pioneer in rolling out of the clean energy powered electric buses in Africa. This is in recognization of your pivotal role in rallying Africa behind the agenda of tackling the deadly and negative effects of climate change globally.
The other day you convened the inaugural Africa Climate Summit. The meeting was a big success.
After 3-day deliberations, the African heads of state and government led the delegates in passing a Nairobi declaration, the key highlights being to speak in one voice on climate matter.
The CEO of e-mobility further noted. We are going to set up an assembling plant in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi.
This will help us to speed this work so that you can meet your timelines for introduction of the buses on Kenyan roads.
Besides, the cost of making these buses will be cheaper.
While noting that he was catapulted to the seat of power by the millions of the hustlers, President Ruto took this opportunity to secure goodies for them.
After the discussions with the top leadership of Mellenium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the US government foreign aid agency agreed to support Kenya with Sh140 billion.
The ‘hustlers’ will be the biggest beneficiaries. The monies to be managed by the Kenyan firms will boost their micro, small and medium enterprises in a big way.
The farmers also have a cause to smile as Agricultural sector would also receive a huge chunk.
While still in US, President Ruto for the second time since he assumed office got an opportunity to address the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
This again was a rare opportunity which would only be given to an African leader who had earned an international recognization because of championing the course of democracy and rule of law back home.
This opportunity would also be given to a leader who was known to be a true pan-Africanist and believing in the concept of building the bridges of partnership and harmony with the community of nations.
In his opening speech, US President Joe Biden, the host, recognized and thanked President Ruto.
He noted that the President of Kenya has agreed to join the United Nations Mission in Haiti. This is a good gesture.
As we know, the people of Haiti are in big trouble. The vicious marauding criminal gangs have forcibly taken over and overrun their country
For the starters, I want to share with them some of the atrocities that were being committed there.
The gangs were raping women and chopping the heads of their fellow citizens. The children were not spared.
The hospitals and schools had been closed and the main roads blocked.
The staff of humanitarian and charitable organizations were being targeted. They were blocked from accessing the camps where hundreds of thousands of Haitians had sought refugee to offer them food and medications.
This is the reason why Haitian leaders, who were on the run and some besieged, had pleaded with UN to intervene.
If you ask historians, this is what they would tell you about Haiti. This was the first country to emancipate itself from the colonial slavery. The people living in this caribbean nation are Africans.
President Ruto remembered this while explaining why Kenya is touched with their pains and agony.
The people of Haiti are human beings just like us. Taking cognizant that Kenya is a member of the community of nations, it is wrong to sit and watch when they are suffering.
Well, I have been reading some of the social media posts. A number of the people would not agree with the position of the president.
To me, this is just politics and it was being peddled by messengers of well-known critics of President William Ruto.
Forgive me for calling this politics cheap and raw because I’m going to explain why.
It is worth noting this is not the first time that the government of Kenya is sending security personnel to join the Africa Union or United Nations peace keeping missions.
The history of the previous Kenyan administrations is replete with this.
The previous deployments were approved at a time when Kenya had fallen far short of meeting the UN requirement of the ratio of 1: 450. This means one police officer taking care of 450 citizens.
I have heard the critics of Ruto raising this as another concern.
How come they never raised it during the reigns of the previous governments?
So, their comments reeked more of hypocrisy and insincerity.
I also totally disagree that President Ruto was doing this in order to earn international recognization, mostly from the white people.
The President had already curved a niche of a renowned leader because of his style of leadership at home.
The world leaders particularly liked him because of strongly believing in tenets of democracy, constitution and rule of law.
Besides, he was walking the talk. This is in terms of fulfilling the pledges he made to Kenyans during the campaigns.
Contrary to impression created, Dr Ruto enjoys the support of African leaders because of being candid in pushing the agenda of Pan-Africanism. This has thrust him into the international stage where he has been championing the course of our people.
Joseph Mutua Ndonga is a writer and political analyst based in Nairobi
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