Addressing the press alongside U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington D.C. on Thursday, Ruto was pressed to explain Kenya’s decision to dispatch the officers to Haiti, a distance of 12,078 kilometres from Kenya, amidst ongoing banditry attacks in the North Rift region.
“Explain the geo-political goal; Haiti is roughly 12,000 kilometres away from Nairobi. A lot of schools in the North Rift counties remain closed because of banditry so why are you committing our national police force to Haiti?” Citizen TV’s Ayub Abdikadir posed.
