Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki has told Parliament’s Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Security that “unless all resources are mobilized and availed, our troops will not leave the country.”

He said U.N. member states are securing resources and have identified how funds will be mobilised and made available to Kenya for the Haiti mission.

Kindiki also tweeted that the “Deployment of National Police Service Officers to Haiti will neither compromise nor undermine the capacity and capability of the service to fulfil its mandate to secure citizens and their property.” 

The deployment of 1000 Kenyan police to Haiti in a United Nations-backed peacekeeping mission in will cost Ksh.36.5 billion. 

This budgeted amount will cater for costs of training, administrative support, weapon, ammunition and anti-riot equipment, transport, technical equipment and general equipment.