Kenya on Thursday said it was pausing a much-needed deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti, as the Caribbean nation cripples under weeks of gang violence and social unrest. Abraham Korir Sing’Oei, Kenya’s principal secretary at the foreign ministry, said deploying police officers would be contingent on the 'ground situation' in Haiti. 'here has to be an authority that can be the basis for a police deployment, that enjoys constitutional authority in Haiti,' Sing’Oei said.
'You have taken the country where it is today. You have no idea what will happen.' 'I'll know if your kids are in Haiti, if your wives are in Haiti ... if your husbands are in Haiti,' he said in an apparent threat to their families. 'If you're gonna run the country all your family ought to be there.' In his remarks, Cherizier said the resignation of Henry was only 'a first step in the battle' for the island nation of around 11 million.