First Lady Mama Rachel Ruto now says the deployment of Kenyan police to Haiti needs a divine escort.
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Speaking during a gospel event on Friday, March 22, at Weston Hotel in Nairobi, Rachel revealed she was involved in the plans to have a prayer team strategically constituted to pray for the peacekeepers.
She argued that the mission would not be successful unless prayers were involved.
Rachel said the strategy was being undertaken by intercessors from Kenya, the US and Haiti.
“Some friends of ours have been holed up in a meeting for two days discussing the issues of Haiti because we felt at the national alter that we cannot allow our police to go to Haiti without prayer. So they have been strategising on a spiritual solution and prayer for our police as they go to Haiti and pray for the people there . We were in that meeting where he had pastors from Haiti and America, and saw how these countries can come together to pray because with prayer everything is possible,” she said.
This came days after the Kenyan government held back its plans to deploy the police to the Carribean country.
The Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs Korir Sing’oei confided in the BBC that the decision was informed by the resignation of the Caribbean nation’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry on March 11.
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Sing’oei said that with Ariel’s resignation, there exists an administration lacuna, thus making it difficult to effect the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that Haiti and Nairobi signed to send the troops there.
Until constitutional administration is installed in Haiti, the deployment will remain on hold, Sing’oei added.
His advisor, Jean Junior Joseph, confirmed the resignation in a statement to CNN, emphasising he would remain in his role until the formation of a new interim government.
Lawlessness and violence have been meted on the Haitian citizenry for a time as gangs sought the ouster of Henry.
Henry took over the reins of power in Haiti in July 2021 following the assassination of the country’s then-president Jovenel Moise.
