"Go to Haiti first before deploying our police" Jimi Wanjigi tells Ruto

Jimi Wanjigi challenges President William Ruto to visit Haiti before deploying the police to the troubled nation.

Former Presidential aspirant Jimi Wanjigi is now demanding that President William Ruto travel to Haiti personally in order to assess the scope of the violence.

The businessman-turned-politician claimed in a Sunday interview with the Press that the trip will work as a fact-finding expedition and assist the President in choosing the best course of action for deployment.

He added that it was now Ruto’s responsibility to carry out his research because Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry had visited Kenya to complete the deployment agreement after exercising due diligence.

“It was very good that Haiti’s Prime Minister came to Kenya. That’s what somebody who is seeking help does so it is very good that he came,” he told the press.

“I think before we deploy any Kenyan to what we are obviously seeing as a warzone, we should be on a fact-finding mission which is why I am asking President William Ruto to replicate the visit of the Haitian Prime Minister.”

Wanjigi further insisted that the conflict had advanced and its magnitude was beyond the Kenya Police’s expertise and needed a more powerful force like the military.

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“He should go and visit Haiti. Let him assess the situation because what we are seeing on TV and social media is that that is a warzone,” he added.

“There is no peacekeeping there and I don’t think police are good for a warzone. He should not be sending the police but the military.”

Wanjigi’s demands come at a time when the gangs have intensified operations across the Caribbean country and vowed to unseat Henry from the position.

In the last two days, the gangs are said to have stormed a prison and freed suspects throwing the country into a crisis.

The prison, which was the country’s largest, held hardcore criminals and was overcrowded.

The gang overwhelmed its security and gained access to the prison within hours.