- Duale said Kenya has special security forces who are capable of taming the dreaded Haiti gangs.
- He said these special units are currently doing the job in the Kenyan borders working together with the KDF (Kenya Defence Forces) in ensuring that they subdue the threat of Al-Shabaab.
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Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has said Kenya remains committed to its peacekeeping mission in Haiti.
Speaking during an interview on Citizen TV on Wednesday, Duale said Kenya has special security forces who are capable of taming the dreaded Haiti gangs.
"Haiti, we are going. It is not the first place we are going," he said.
"Within the police, we have got special teams that can deal with any scenario like the GSU(General Service Unit) and the PPU(Public Protection Unit)."
He said these special units are currently doing the job in the Kenyan borders working together with the KDF (Kenya Defence Forces) in ensuring that they subdue the threat of Al-Shabaab.
Duale listed regions where Kenyan security forces are or have previously been deployed on peacekeeping missions that turned successful.
"We are in Somalia, we are in DRC Congo where M23 and the other armed groups are lethal and we subdued them," he said.
"We are in Tigray region where we are part of the verification team, and we are also in Kosovo," he continued.
He said Kenya has a very long history of stabilising and bringing peace to war-torn nations adding that it is the international community that has called upon Kenya to intervene.
"We have been asked by the international community because of our reputation. Our standing and the capacity will lead the multinational-force to stabilise Haiti," he highlighted.
The mission is logistically supported by the US Department of Defence.
"The US Department of Defence will provide the logistics, communication centre, and the intelligence gathering and sharing," he said.
When questioned about the possible fatal consequences of the mission on the police force, he commented that it is not in the interest of the government to bring back Kenyan police in body bags.
"We are not in the business of bringing our police in body bags and it is not the interest of both the Commander-in-Chief and of our government," he said.
"The interest of our government is to stabilise Haiti, train their police and allow the women and the children in Haiti to live like any other human being in this world," he added.